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Islamic schools admitted to voucher program

Islamic schools admitted to voucher program

Four Islamic schools have been admitted to the Texas voucher program after a federal judge ordered the state to invite the schools to apply, the Houston Chronicle reported.The judge also ordered the application deadline for families be extended to March 31, citing concerns that no Islamic schools had been approved for the program. “We received an invitation to register yesterday from Odyssey. We were able to register, and we got approval immediately upon finishing the registration form,” Hamed Ghazali, principal of the Houston Quran Academy, said. “In addition, our school appeared on the parents’ portal and some of our parents ...

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