Several States Rejected This Private School Chain as a Charter. Now It’s Eligible for Texas’ Taxpayer-Funded Vouchers.by Lexi Churchill Co-published with The Texas Tribune

https://www.propublica.org/article/alpha-school-texas-vouchers-ai?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river by Lexi Churchill Co-published with The Texas Tribune Reporting Highlights A New Model: Alpha School is a fast-growing chain of AI-driven private schools that claim academics take up only two hours of the day. Repeated Rejections: Texas is one of at least nine states that have rejected Alpha School’s pitch to open a publicly funded charter school. A Pivot: But after the state board of education voted down its charter bid, another state agency accepted most of Alpha’s private schools into Texas’ new school voucher program.