Nearly 100,000 Texas students will receive school vouchers for private school tuition during its inaugural year. Here's who got the awards.

The grade level with the highest number of applications was Pre-kindergarten (36,666 or 13.37 percent), but just over 50 percent of applicants (18,677) were deemed ineligible for funds. Pre-K made up ...

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Efforts by state officials in Texas and Florida are raising questions − and triggering lawsuits − over whether their taxpayer-funded school voucher programs discriminate against Islamic schools in ...

The first awardees of more than 42,600 children included those with disabilities — and their siblings — whose families make up to 500% of the federal poverty level, which is $165,000 per year or less ...

Hundreds more private school families across the Houston-area requested special education testing to apply for school ...

Jennifer Lee and Kyev Tatum. 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 ...

Governor Greg Abbott announced Thursday the first round of Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) funding, which is being awarded to more than 42,000 Texas families. The program is administered by ...

The Texas comptroller has accepted several Islamic private schools into the state’s voucher program after the institutions sued to gain admittance. Four Muslim parents and three Islamic private school ...

State leaders expanded charters and vouchers even as demographic trends pointed to declining enrollment and growing strain on ...

The governors of both Texas and Florida deemed the Council on American-Islamic Relations to be a foreign terrorist organization, barring certain Islamic schools from public benefits as a result. A ...