School voucher applications lower in Coastal Bend than other regions

More than 2,330 Coastal Bend students have applied for Texas Education Freedom Accounts, the state’s new program that offers to cover some private school and home school educational costs.

The Texas Comptroller’s Office released application counts as of March 8. Applications will remain open until March 17.

About half of the Coastal Bend applications, which encompass Nueces, San Patricio, Aransas, Kleberg, Kenedy, Duval, Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak and McMullen counties, come from the Corpus Christi Independent School District…

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