The U.S. Department of Education approved Ed-Flex authority for Arizona, Nevada and South Carolina on Aug. 21, bringing the federal total to 25 states.
Comal ISD lists Title I and student-support programs, but the Aug. 21 approvals apply to three other states; any waiver change for the district would require a Texas-specific action.
Ed-Flex gives an approved state education agency authority to waive selected federal statutory or regulatory requirements for districts and schools without sending each waiver to Washington first. The department uses Student Support and Academic Enrichment spending caps as one example: an approved state may give districts flexibility over those limits.
Friday’s action expanded state-level authority rather than rewriting requirements for every school district nationwide. The Education Department says participation now reaches 25 states, and the three approvals announced Friday went to Arizona, Nevada and South Carolina.
For Comal County, the practical issue is not the national count by itself but whether state authority changes a rule governing a local federal program. A Texas approval and a district-level waiver record would establish any effect on Comal ISD spending or administration.