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HOUSTON – There are 22 days and counting until families across the Lone Star State can apply for the “Texas Education Freedom Account.”<\/p>\n
Texas Education Freedom Accounts <\/p>\n
The $1 billion appropriation represents the biggest “school choice” investment in U.S. history, according to the acting state comptroller.<\/p>\n
For the first time ever, parents of Texas students seeking an educational environment outside the public schools will be offered substantial financial support from the State.<\/p>\n
What they’re saying:<\/p>\n
“Feb. 4, parents actually get to participate. They get to go on the portal. We have over a thousand schools already registered that they will be able to select from and choose the education that’s best for their child,” said acting comptroller Kelly Hancock.<\/p>\n
Who’s eligible? <\/p>\n
While all Texas students are eligible for the Education Freedom Accounts, the Legislature has designated two groups as the highest priority recipients.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“Low income and special needs and that’s really where we are focused and the funding for special needs is equivalent to what a public school would get, so we think there will be lots of opportunities there,” said Hancock.<\/p>\n
The annual stipend for children challenged with special needs will be up to $30,000 while the grants for so-called “typical” students are set at $10,400 per school year.<\/p>\n
Parents seeking information can log on at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this article comes from the acting Texas comptroller.\u00a0<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON – There are 22 days and counting until families across the Lone Star State can apply for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163,223,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-122182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}