For many families interested in applying for a cut of Texas' new $1 billion school voucher plan, the area's most expensive private schools, even with financial aid, may remain out of reach.

House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to ...

Members of the ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish communities hold a protest before a 2022 Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and ...

On Saturday, May 3, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 2, more commonly known as the school voucher bill, into law. According to S.B. 2, it will go into effect Sept. 1, 2025, and ...

House Republicans say some districts have ended their public-private school student-athlete agreements since a 2023 law giving families education savings accounts to fund private school costs.

The PIAA has indicated that it can’t bar private and charter schools from competing in the same playoffs as public schools, Rep. Scott Conklin, D-Centre, said. HB 41 would change that.

House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to ...

The controversial program, which will use public dollars to pay for students’ private school tuition, passed during a special legislative session this past January. There are 20,000 scholarships ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

But even if McCardie received a grant, she isn’t sure where she’d spend it: There are no private schools in Winn Parish — or in four of the six surrounding parishes — that are ...

Oklahoma officials have released the names of the thousands of taxpayers who received the new Parental Choice Tax Credit for tuition and expenses at private schools. After repeated requests by ...