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College promise programs: How students can get free tuition at Texas colleges

College promise programs that aim to make higher education more affordable - and in many cases free entirely - for students have expanded across Texas in recent years. These programs, typically funded ...
Houston Public Media

Families can soon apply for Texas’ $1 billion school voucher program. Here’s how it works

The application window for Texas' new statewide school voucher program will open Feb. 4. New details for the $1 billion initiative, known as Texas Education Freedom Accounts, or TEFA, were released by ...
Houston Chronicle

See the first Texas private schools that have been approved for the state's $1B voucher program

Hundreds of private schools have been approved to participate in Texas' new voucher program, many of them Christian institutions located in the state’s largest cities, according to a new map released ...
Houston Chronicle

Over half of Texas private schools expected to join $1 billion voucher program

Texas private schools are gearing up for potentially high participation as the state's long-awaited $1 billion school voucher program prepares to launch. Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock is ...
KXAN

Texas Women for the Arts opens grant applications for arts education programs

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Arts education programs across Texas have the chance to get money that supports programming for Texas children across artistic disciplines like music, visual arts, performing arts, ...
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Texas' school voucher program is structured to serve the wealthy, not the poor

Texas lawmakers pledged that the new school voucher program would prioritize low-income students. Yet recent state-level decisions are already creating barriers to private schools for families who do ...