The program would be capped at $1 billion in its first year, but could grow quickly, potentially reaching an estimated $4.5 billion a year by 2030. The funds can be used for private school tuition and for costs associated with home-schooling, including curriculum materials and virtual learning programs.
Vouchers are poised to be prominent in many “red states” through state legislative initiatives. There may be some efforts to support school vouchers at the Federal level as well.
…states such as Arizona, West Virginia and Iowa passed a new form of private-school voucher known as an education savings account, or ESA.
Whatever the motivations behind school vouchers might be, and there is a mix of motivations, the result of providing vouchers is a sort of funding pool for alternative “school startups”.
But the growth of alternative models for education has convinced some policymakers that rural students will have more options than they would have in the past. Those models include for-profit virtual schools and microschools, which are often run by a single educator working out of a home or a rented space.
“For Profit Virtual Schools” and “micro schools” are likely to lean heavily into AI supported tutoring as the economics of supplementing or supplanting teacher salaries with AI costs would seem a no brainer. Such implementations would face minimal bureaucratic process, and could get “rolled out” years faster than the Public Education system.
If the above proves true, we may well have an AI Education “system” in parallel with the “Public Education System”. Or even wide spread AI Education systems adopted by Public School Districts, if school funding is reduced. Which, given the current trends in Washington DC (and red states) , could happen in ways we don’t currently foresee.
Texas Is Poised to Create a $1 Billion Private School Voucher Program - The New York Times