The Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program ended its student application window with 274,183 applicants, following a federal judge extending the deadline from March 17 to March 31.
Two federal lawsuits were filed against Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock and others, alleging that the TEFA program has excluded Islamic schools. U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett said he found it “troubling” that no Muslim schools had been approved for the TEFA program. He extended the deadline and ordered the comptroller’s office to send applications to schools that had not received them, resulting in some Islamic schools being accepted into the TEFA program.
