Free With TEFA
In 2025, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 2 and provided $1 billion in funding to create the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program and give parents greater freedom and flexibility in choosing the best educational environment for their children.
The TEFA program, administered by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, is the largest day-one school choice initiative in the nation. Through this program, parents who choose to enroll their children outside of the public school system – including a private school or homeschool – and are accepted into the program can use their child’s TEFA funds to pay for approved education-related expenses through the program marketplace.
What does this mean?
Free money for families to send their students through participating private schools. HOPE Academy is one of those schools. In this page, we will guide you through the TEFA application, so you can send your scholar to our school.
Requirements
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The parent must be a Texas resident.
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The student must be U.S. citizens or lawfully present in the United States
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The student must be eligible to attend a Texas school district or open-enrollment charter school or pre-K program
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This includes children of a parent who is an active-duty member of the U.S. armed forces.
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On the TEFA finder tool, we appear as one of the schools that are approved to use TEFA funds!
When to apply?
The application window for 2027-2028 school year has not opened yet. Sign up to receive an email alert when it does open.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TEFA