Overview
- Texas’ Education Freedom Accounts, extended by a federal judge after a lawsuit over excluded Islamic schools, close Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. CT with more than 257,000 applications.
- The state expects to fund about 90,000 to 100,000 students, so many families will not receive an award this year.
- Families will be sorted into four priority tiers by income and disability status, starting with students with disabilities in households at or below 500% of the federal poverty level.
- The comptroller will run lotteries within oversubscribed tiers to divide $1 billion and will begin sending award notifications in April.
- More than three-quarters of applicants already attend private school, and awards can also pay for homeschool curricula, tutoring, and educational therapies.