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Maria Contreras
Coverage of Maria Contreras in the Nexus archive.
- AP Exclusive: The school choice scholarship boom benefits kids already in private school
School choice scholarship programs, which use taxpayer funds to support private education, primarily benefit students already in private or homeschool rather than public school families. Maria Contreras, a parent in Fort Worth, Texas, discovered a scholarship through her church to help her son with learning challenges attend a Catholic school as Texas expands its $1 billion education savings account program.