Texas School Voucher Deadline Is Tonight: Who Qualifies, How It Works, and What Families Need to Know

Applications Top 274,000 for Texas School Choice Program After Extended Deadline

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Texas Voucher Applicants Mostly White, Private School Students

AUSTIN, TX — Preliminary data from Texas’ new school voucher program shows most applicants are white families and students already enrolled in private or home-school settings, raising questions about who may benefit most from the initiative. According to the state comptroller’s office, about 256,700 applications were submitted before the deadline. Of those, 45% came from white families, compared to 24% of Texas public school enrollment. Hispanic…

White Texans, students previously in private school or home-school make up bulk of voucher applicants

Parents must have their children enrolled in a school by July 15. Later this month, families will begin finding out if they can receive voucher funding.

Texas' school voucher applications set to close tonight

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TribCast: Assessing the rollout of Texas school vouchers

In this week’s episode, hosts Matthew and Eleanor talk with Tribune K-12 education reporter Jaden Edison about who in Texas applied for school vouchers and why Muslim schools were shut out of the program.

Texas’ school voucher applications set to close tonight after judge declines to extend deadline

A federal judge previously gave families an additional two weeks to apply after Muslim parents and Islamic schools sued, arguing they had been improperly excluded from the program.