Texas Education Freedom Accounts (school choice, vouchers, ESAs): the program, the money, the families, the fight over it.
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines' office has refused to release public information showing how millions of dollars in state school voucher funds have been distributed to private schools and vendors, citing student privacy concerns. The Houston Chronicle reported on October 22, 2026 that its public information requests over the previous month were denied, despite the program being a $1 billion state fund under Huffines' supervision.
Texas began rolling out $1 billion in public funding in summer 2026 that eligible families can put toward private education expenses. The Association of Classical Christian Schools, which includes about 500 schools, has formed a coalition with conservative groups including Turning Point Education and the Heritage Foundation with a goal to convert or create 5,000 new classical Christian schools in the next decade with 1.5 million students nationwide. An ACCS administrator in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs is launching three classical Christian schools this fall under his Kyrie Christian Academy brand.
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