Overview
- Most participants will receive about $10,300 per student, home-schoolers $2,000, and students with disabilities up to $30,000, with eligible pre-K children now qualifying for the full amount.
- Applications open Dec. 9 for current disability-program vendors, shortly after for other providers, and Feb. 4 for families, with an expected roughly six-week window and decisions by May 1 according to program documents.
- For special-education priority in the lottery, families may submit a Social Security determination letter or a physician’s note at application, while full educational evaluations and an IEP are required before disability funds are released.
- Disability-rights and public-education advocates sought stronger verification and broader transparency, but the comptroller kept reporting and auditing limited to what state law mandates.
- Final rules also allow newly accredited school networks to open Texas campuses and receive funds, ban resale of purchased items indefinitely, and let approved students continue without reapplying each year.