National School Choice Week celebrates the power of empowering parents. Texas is leading this movement at an unprecedented scale, launching the largest first-year school choice program in American history. But as we approve providers to receive tax-funded Texas Education Freedom Accounts, we’re drawing a clear line: schools with ties to terrorist organizations or foreign adversaries will not be permitted to participate.

When I stepped in as Acting Texas Comptroller at the request of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, implementing Texas Education Freedom Accounts was one of my top priorities. This $1 billion program is leading the nation in empowering parents to choose the best educational path for their children. But this new freedom must never come at the expense of national security or taxpayer protection, and Texas will not stand idle while bad actors attempt to exploit it.

This is the same principle that led Texas to divest state pension funds from hostile regimes, secure the border with Operation Lone Star after Joe Biden refused, empower sheriffs to enforce immigration law with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and ban land purchases by........

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