New School choice program bringing hope to children, parents, pastors say

(The Center Square) – Texas’ new school choice program is bringing hope to children and parents, pastors said at a Republican Party of Texas Convention held in Houston.

Texas’ new school choice program “has brought hope to our parents who felt so hopeless,” Tyler, Texas-based pastor Joel Enge said to a crowd of several thousand. Enge founded Kingdom Life Academy, a private Christian school in northeast Texas.

A longtime school choice advocate and former public-school teacher, Enge has known Gov. Greg Abbott for more than 10 years. He highlighted Abbott’s and the state legislature’s commitment to advancing the strongest prolife legislation in the country, the Heartbeat Act, banning boys in girls’ sports, banning sex change surgeries on minors, and securing Texas’ border while also cracking down on human smuggling and sex trafficking, including of children.

“Gov. Abbott is fighting for the heart and soul of Texas,” Enge said. Quoting from Isaiah 61:8 in the Old Testam...