Top story: Applications had been submitted for about 275,000 students as of late March. But just 25% were for students currently enrolled in public schools.

That amounts to about 1% of the state’s 5.5 million public school students. 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