“The exclusion is not based on individualized findings of unlawful conduct by any specific school, but rather on categorical presumptions that Islamic schools are suspect and potentially linked to terrorism by virtue of their religious identity and community associations.” https://www.texasobserver.org/school-vouchers-discrimination-brouhaha-abbott/

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School Vouchers Are What We Thought They Were

The nascent "freedom accounts" program is, predictably, burdened by Republicans’ insistence on religious discrimination—and likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.

The Texas Observer