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This article is intended to provide Texas families with important information about Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) application deadlines, enrollment timelines, funding schedules, and installment dates.

Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program Timeline and Funding Schedule

This article provides general information about the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program.

What is TEFA?

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Families participating in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program can contact Odyssey Support for help with their accounts, applications, and program-related questions.

How to Contact Odyssey Support for Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA)

Families, parents, guardians, and students using Odyssey

For Families

Student Eligibility and Grade Placement

This article explains the most common appeal approval outcomes and where to find updated information.

TEFA Parent Appeals – Appeal Approval Outcomes

This article explains the appeal process for the TEFA program.

TEFA Parent Appeals Process

Can Students Participate in Early Childhood Special Education and Texas Education Freedom Accounts At the Same Time?

This article is intended non-resident, Active-Duty parents and guardians moving to Texas that want to apply for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts Program.

Can Active-Duty Military Families Moving to Texas Participate?

This article is intended for Texas parents to help them understand the eligibility requirements for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program.

Who is Eligible?

Learn the age requirements for Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA), including Pre-K and K–12 eligibility for the 2026–2027 school year.

What Are the Age Requirements for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program?

This article explains the eligibility requirements for prekindergarten students participating in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

What Prekindergarten Students are Eligible for the Program?

This article helps Texas parents understand which disabilities may affect a child’s TEFA eligibility and whether they receive priority for an award.

What Disabilities Qualify a Child for Eligibility in a School District’s Special Education Program?

This article helps Texas parents and guardians understand student testing requirements for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

Are There Testing and Reporting Requirements for Students?

This article is intended for Texas families and schools seeking information about assessments TEFA participating students may complete.

What Tests are Currently Approved for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program?

This article is intended for Texas families who relocate during the school year.

What Happens if I Move?

Find important program rules, requirements, deadlines, and other information families should know while participating in the program.

Program Rules & Important Information

This article is intended for Texas families interested in applying for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program.

When will Applications Open?

This article includes a step by step video walkthrough of the TEFA parent application. The video shows how to complete each section of the application and what information you will…

Texas TEFA: Step-by-Step Application Instructions

This article is intended for Texas parents and guardians preparing to apply for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

What Documents or Information Do I Need for my Application?

This article is intended for parents applying to the TEFA program who need to upload IEP information

Adding IEP to Student Application

A Texas Student Unique Identifier (UID) is a unique number assigned to a student in Texas. If you do not have your child’s UID, there are several ways to find…

Where Can a Parent Find Their Child’s Texas Student Unique ID (UID) Number if They Do Not Have It?

The TEFA Disability Certification Form may be completed by a licensed professional who is qualified to certify a child’s disability.

Who Can Complete the TEFA Disability Certification Form?

This article helps Texas families understand what each Individualized Education Program (IEP) instructional code means, so they can select the correct one when applying.

What Do the Texas IEP Instructional Codes Mean?

This article is intended to help Texas families understand the S-Number and the Texas Unique Child Identification Number for their child.

What is The S-Number or Texas Unique Child Identification Number?

This article is intended to provide clarity for Texas families to understand who can apply for the children.

Who is Eligible to Submit an Application on Behalf of a Child?

This article provides information for Texas parents and guardians of children with disabilities.

I Have a Child with a Disability: What Do I Need to Do?

This article is intended to help Texas families who have a child with a disability without an individualized education program (IEP) on file with the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

Where Can I Find the TEFA Disability Certification Form That My Physician Needs to Complete for My Child With a Disability?

Families interested in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program can apply online through Odyssey during the program's application window.

How to Apply for Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA)

Find information about how to apply, required documents, application status, verification, and what to expect during the application process.

Applying for the Program

This article explains the purchase restrictions that apply to certain eligible expenses under the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

What Are the Purchase Restrictions for TEFA?

This article is intended for Texas parents and program vendors to help them understand the approved eligible expenses for the TEFA Program according to TAC Rule Rule §16.406.

What are Eligible Educational Expenses for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program?

This article explains how TEFA families can purchase eligible private school meals.

Private School Meals in the TEFA Program

Learn what you can purchase with program funds, including eligible educational expenses, requirements, and any applicable restrictions.

What You Can Use Funds For

TEFA Funding Information

This article explains how Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA) funds are distributed and what families can expect throughout the school year.

TEFA Funding Timeline and Installments

This article is intended for Texas families to help them understand the funding amounts for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program.

What Amount of Funding Will be Available for Participating Children?

Understanding the TEFA Award Amount on your Parent Portal

Understanding TEFA Tiers

This article helps Texas parents and guardians understand what happens to unused TEFA funds at the end of the school year.

What Happens if I Don’t Use All the Funds?

This policy explains how tuition refunds work for TEFA students who withdraw, transfer from an approved TEFA school, or opt out of the TEFA program.

TEFA Tuition Refund Policy

Learn about funding amounts, when funds become available, how to view your balance, and other important information about your program funds.

Funding & Your Account

This article is intended for prekindergarten schools seeking to understand more about the requirements for participating in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

Are Prekindergarten Schools Only Allowed to Serve Prekindergarten Children?

Learn how parents and guardians can review and confirm the tuition and fees entered by their student's school for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

How Families Confirm Tuition and Fees for TEFA

Learn how parents and guardians can use available TEFA funds to make a tuition payment to their student's school.

How to Make a Tuition Payment for TEFA

Find information about participating schools, enrollment, tuition and fees, and using program funds to pay for eligible school expenses.

Schools & Tuition

Participating schools and school administrators

For Schools

This Video Tutorial and Step by Step Article is intended for all TEFA schools who want to complete their school registration.

How to Claim Your TEFA School Account and Complete Your Registration

This article is intended for participating schools to have more clarity on whether they can become vendors or service providers in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts Program.

Can Participating Schools Also be Vendors?

This article is intended to help Texas schools understand the eligibility requirements to participate in the TEFA Program.

How Can Schools Become Eligible for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program?

This article is intended for Texas public schools to provide more clarity on whether they can become vendors or service providers in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts Program.

Can Public Schools be Vendors?

This article is intended for Pre-K or Kindergarten Providers registering for their TEFA school account

Who is Considered Eligible to be a Pre-K or Kindergarten Provider?

Learn how to become a participating school, access and manage your Odyssey account, and set up and manage payouts.

School Setup, Account Management & Payouts

This article is intended to provide schools with information about tuition requirements for participants in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program.

Can I Set Different Tuition Rates for TEFA Children?

This article provides guidance for participating TEFA private schools on setting tuition and fees for students.

Tuition and Fee Guidelines for Participating TEFA Private Schools

This article helps participating Texas schools understand what happens after a family applies for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

Next Steps for Texas Schools After a Family Applies for TEFA

Learn how to manage student enrollments, set and confirm tuition and fees, and understand enrollment and tuition statuses.

Enrollment & Tuition

This article is intended for Texas parents and schools seeking information about assessments TEFA participating students may complete.

This article is intended for schools interested in participating in the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program.

What are the Testing Requirements for Participating Schools?

Learn about reporting, testing, and other ongoing requirements for participating schools.

Reporting & Program Requirements

Program-specific requirements, eligible products and services, policies, and guidance for vendors and service providers.

For Vendors & Service Providers

This article is intended to help vendors and service providers understand the requirements for joining the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program’s Odyssey Marketplace.

Who Can Become a Vendor and What are the Requirements?

This article provides additional information for out-of-state vendors or service providers interested in joining the TEFA Program Marketplace.

How Can Out-of-State Vendors or Service Providers Qualify for Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA)?

Find program-specific eligibility, application, approval, and participation requirements for vendors and service providers.

Vendor Eligibility & Participation

Texas Marketplace: Categories for Offerings

Learn which products and services are eligible and review program-specific restrictions, limits, and requirements.

Eligible Products & Services

This article explains who must complete fingerprinting, what information is required, and how the process works.

Fingerprinting Requirements for Texas Vendors

This article explains professional licenses or qualifying credentials that are required for certain service providers under TAC §61.104(4).

When Are Professional Licenses Required in the TEFA Vendor Application?

Review program-specific policies, documentation and payment requirements, deadlines, and other vendor and service provider responsibilities.

Program Rules, Payments & Deadlines

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