State legislative sessions around the country are coming to a close, and fights over public vs. charter school funding and cell phones were among the biggest policy battles this year.

While all eyes have been on federal changes to education policies, such how schools should approach diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), state lawmakers have attempted to push forward with changes to their own systems, ranging from enrollment of migrant students to increased school choice funding.

From Texas to Colorado to New York, state lawmakers took on a wide variety of schools-based issues, and not all of them were fully resolved.

Policies that passed this legislative session

The state education policy that has received the most national attention came out of Texas with the passage of its school choice program.

With the largest day one program in the country, Texas has dedicated $1 billion in the first year to give scholarships to students that they can take to private or homeschooling options.

“I am signing this law that will ensure Texas families, whose children can no longer be served by the public school assigned to them, have the choice to take their money and find the school that is right for them,” said Gov. Greg Abbott (R).

Other states have also expanded school choice programs, including in Indiana and Wyoming, or begun new ones, as in Tennessee and Idaho.

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