Effort to keep homeschoolers out of voucher program stalls in SC committee

The bill's sponsor said he plans to offer a proviso, or one-year law, to address his concerns about home-educated students receiving school vouchers.

Islamic schools excluded from Texas’s $1 billion voucher program

The state alleges that the schools are connected to an organization that the governor designated a terrorist group.
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Texas hit with second federal suit over exclusion of Muslim schools from voucher program

Both suits maintain the state is engaging in religious discrimination by cutting off state voucher money to Islamic private ...

GOP push to expand Tennessee voucher program to 40K students clears first hurdle

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Most applicants for Texas school choice vouchers already attend private schools, state data shows

The deadline for Texas families to apply​ for Texas Education Freedom Accounts is on March 17.

Bill expanding TN’s school voucher program to 40K scholarships at cost of more than $150M advances in legislature

Bill Lee’s Education Freedom Scholarship program with thousands of more scholarships at a cost of more than $150 m ...
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In states where voucher programs have exploded, opponents make their case for limits

Critics of vouchers see an opportunity to impose income and other limits. But the strategy could also signal acceptance that ...

Houston has more applicants to the voucher program than any Texas city, new data shows. Here's where

Houston ISD had far more voucher applicants than any other Texas district, according to the data. Fort Bend ISD also saw a large number of resident families apply for state-funded accounts.

Muslim parent sues over Texas voucher program's block on Islamic schools

The suit appears to be the first legal challenge to the voucher program that Republican lawmakers pitched last year as a way ...