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Vouchers in the Valley: How TEFA funds split private, homeschool families

  • 1.  Vouchers in the Valley: How TEFA funds split private, homeschool families

    Posted 11 days ago

    A record-setting rollout of the Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA) program has thousands of local families charting new educational paths, but state funding looks vastly different depending on where those students learn. Under the newly minted state-funded voucher program, eligible private school students receive up to $10,474 annually. Homeschooled participants, by comparison, are capped at a maximum of $2,000 per year. Despite the wide financial gap, local administrators and homeschool advocates in the Brazos Valley say the funds are already transforming local classrooms.

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    Michael Spurlin
    ATPE
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