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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession
Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.
In 2023 the investors Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel reportedly took to the stage at the exclusive Sun Valley conference in Idaho to urge fellow tech heavyweights to homeschool their children. A provision in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill introduced the first-ever federal tax credit for those who donate to educational scholarships and expanded a tax-advantage account program to include homeschooling expenses. Alpha School, a microschool known for its use of personalized AI tutors, has opened locations in tech hubs like Austin, Miami, and Brownsville, Texas—home of SpaceX’s Starbase headquarters—and has plans to expand to a dozen other cities this year.
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