Residents of San Antonio’s wealthier school districts are significantly outpacing their poorer counterparts in applying for the state’s school voucher program, data from the Texas Comptroller’s Office shows.
For Joshua Cowen, a Michigan State professor who’s studied the effects of school vouchers nationwide, those numbers show the new program is working just as its Republican champions intended.
Gov. Greg Abbott and other voucher backers argued the program would give Texans of all incomes the opportunity to send their kids to private schools…