{"id":221611,"date":"2026-03-26T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221611\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:49:06","slug":"voucher-approved-muslim-school-could-be-tied-to-iran-newsradio-740-ktrh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/221611\/","title":{"rendered":"Voucher Approved Muslim School Could Be Tied To Iran | NewsRadio 740 KTRH"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of Muslim schools have now been approved for the Texas School Choice Voucher program after a lawsuit was filed by some Muslim schools and parents in response to their exclusion.<\/p>\n

One of those recently approved schools is raising concerns after The Texas Scorecard<\/a> reported that it may have links to top Hamas officials and that one of the school\u2019s teachers was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial.<\/p>\n

Michael Quinn Sullivan with The Texas Scorecard says the school also has financial ties to Iran, explaining: \u201cThe school received close to a million dollars from the Islamic Development Bank, which is an Iranian-funded entity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sullivan also pointed out that there really wasn\u2019t much of a reason for this school to even be approved, because the recent court order in the lawsuit relating to the program didn\u2019t require it. \u201cThe only item out of the court from that lawsuit regarded keeping the application period open through the end of the month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

So why was the school approved? As of now, it\u2019s still unclear. Sullivan suggested that it might have simply been a bureaucratic error, and he hopes that the school\u2019s approval will be revoked by the next official full-time Comptroller of Public Accounts, who will replace acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock after the November elections.<\/p>\n

Neither the Comptroller’s office or Brighter Horizons, the school in question, has commented.<\/p>\n

The Comptroller’s Office – according to a report – has asked the Attorney General’s Office to shut down a Houston area school with alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, designated by the state as a foreign terrorist organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of Muslim schools have now been approved for the Texas School Choice Voucher program after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-221611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221611","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=221611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}