{"id":293365,"date":"2026-05-14T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293365\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:46:07","slug":"you-applied-for-a-texas-education-freedom-account-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293365\/","title":{"rendered":"You applied for a texas education freedom account\u2014Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Texas just rolled out its massive school voucher program \u2014 called TEFA \u2014 and more than 20 San Antonio-area school districts, including Northside ISD, Northeast ISD, San Antonio ISD, Comal, and Judson, could see students leaving for private schools. More than $824 million has already been awarded to students statewide.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on the waitlist, don&#8217;t give up yet \u2014 there are still roughly 50,000 people in Tier 3 alone waiting for funding to free up. Families who were awarded have until July 15th to confirm they&#8217;re participating, and if you were denied or want more money, Patty Santos dug into how you have 30 days to file an appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Texas just rolled out its massive school voucher program \u2014 called TEFA \u2014 and more than 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163,2360,14331,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-293365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-education","tag-school","tag-tefa","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}