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Texas school vouchers: How parents can locate private schools

Only about 90,000 to 100,000 vouchers will be awarded, and priority will go to low-income families and students with disabilities, officials said.

The demand for Texas’ first-ever school voucher program has received more than 250,000 applications, according to data from the Texas Comptroller’s Office, since its deadline on March 31. Families have applied for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts, funded at $1 billion and expected to serve roughly 100,000 students through a lottery system, or less than half of those who applied. “Crossing the 200,000-student mark shows just how strongly Texa…

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Houston Press broke the news in on Monday, April 13, 2026.
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