In other news from Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott has signed the country’s largest school voucher program into law, making Texas the 16th state to make taxpayer funds available to pay for private schools. So-called school choice is a Republican-pushed program which sucks money from budget-strapped public schools and largely benefits wealthier families.

This comes as the conservative-led U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to allow publicly funded charter schools to start including religious schools.