(CBS) – The Texas Comptroller’s Office has approved two Islamic private schools from North Texas to take part in the state’s taxpayer‑funded school choice program. The move comes one day after Houston federal judge Alfred Bennett ordered the state to consider the schools’ applications – a step the schools say Texas had previously refused to take.
Records from the comptroller’s office, which oversees the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, show Excellence Academy, a private Islamic school in McKinney, has now been approved to participate. By Wednesday afternoon, the school appeared on the state’s website of participating schools.
Ehsan Sayed, a board member and graduate of Brighter Horizons Academy in Garland, told CBS News Texas on Wednesday afternoon that they had just learned the state had also approved their school…