There’s an education reform that is wildly popular with parents and actually improves student achievement. Those are the reasons it has faced such fierce opposition. On Monday, Texas announced that it had awarded Texas Education Freedom Accounts to an additional 53,000 students . Those accounts are Texas’ version of education savings accounts. Parents can opt out of the traditional public school system and receive a portion of what the state would have spent on their child. Families choosing to attend a private school receive around $10,500 per child. Home-schooling families can receive $2,000 annually. Students with disabilities can receive more. Here’s what’s interesting. More than 274,000 students applied for the program , around the Clark County School District’s enrollment. That’s overwhelming demand. Texas allocated $1 billion in funding for the program. That means there wasn’t enough money to go around. To distribute the money, Texas separated students into tiers.…