Overview
- The application window for Texas Education Freedom Accounts closes March 17, with more than 200,000 submissions reported by the Texas Comptroller’s Office.
- First-year funding is expected to cover roughly 90,000 students, leaving demand more than double the available slots.
- State officials will review applications after the deadline and plan to issue initial funding notifications in April, with families asked to finalize choices by mid-July.
- Pre-K filings show significant ineligibility, with about 24,000 applications but only around 12,000 meeting the program’s narrower pre-K criteria.
- More than 2,200 schools have registered to participate, and approved funds can pay for private school tuition, homeschooling, tutoring, textbooks, transportation, and certain therapies.