AUSTIN - Texas Governor Greg Abbott has spent a lot of political capital to push for school choice and now legislation is closer than ever to reaching his desk. After a marathon session, the Texas House passed a bill to create a $1 billion Education Savings Account program.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is a step closer to signing into law a voucherlike program that would use taxpayer money to help families pay for private schools. The bill, a centerpiece of Abbott’s legislative agenda,

All the Republican majority in the Senate will have to do is approve SB 2, as they've already done on the original bill.