By May 6, roughly 96,000 students will have received notices that they can participate in Texas’ school voucher program, Acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock said in a statement Monday.
The first awardees of more than 42,600 children included those with disabilities — and their siblings — whose families make up to 500% of the federal poverty level, which is $165,000 per year or less for a family of four. Those families began receiving notices April 22, with the comptroller recently adding about 2,000 additional families to the group.
