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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Jaden Edison

These Texans want better schools for Black students. They disagree on vouchers as the answer.

Editor’s note: This post contains an image that includes a racial effigy.

Jennifer Lee and Kyev Tatum agree that Texas’ Black students do not receive the same academic support as their peers, that schools punish them unfairly and that recent state laws silence Black history and perspectives in the classroom.

But the two Black Texans sharply diverge on whether the state’s new voucher program will make education in Texas better or worse for students who look like them.

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