Many students have applied for the new Texas school voucher program, but some question whether the program will benefit low-income families after seeing early application statistics.

The dispute comes amid growing hostility from Republican elected officials in Texas toward the state’s Muslim residents.

The suit appears to be the first legal challenge to the voucher program that Republican lawmakers pitched last year as a way ...

Students have applied from across the state, but most are clustered in urban areas, including Houston, San Antonio and Dallas.

Critics of vouchers see an opportunity to impose income and other limits. But the strategy could also signal acceptance that vouchers are hard to eliminate.