Overview
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit in Travis County seeking a permanent injunction to stop the Higher Education Coordinating Board from administering three programs.
- The case targets the Texas College Work‑Study Program, the TXWORKS internship, and the ACE grant program, all designed to support low‑income students.
- Paxton argues program rules require nonsectarian work and render seminary students ineligible, violating the First Amendment and the Texas Constitution.
- The board, its commissioner, chair, and members are named as defendants, and the agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
- Paxton highlights a recent Minnesota ruling on similar issues and faces scrutiny for previously voting to create ACE in 2013 while now running for the U.S. Senate.