Nearly 7,000 Alabama families have applied for the CHOOSE Act, the state's new Education Savings Account (ESA) program, after opening it up for applications on January 2.
Families can apply online for the 2025-2026 school year at the CHOOSE Act website. The application process will be open through April 7, and award notifications will be sent to families in May.
Frank Miles, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Revenue, told 1819 News on Thursday morning that the state had received 6,979 family applications for 11,916 students so far.
The Alabama Department of Revenue manages the CHOOSE Act, which provides ESAs to eligible K-12 students to help pay for school tuition, tutoring, educational therapies and other qualified education expenses at approved education service providers across the state. Funding for eligible students includes:
$7,000 per eligible student enrolled in a participating school.
$2,000 per participating student enrolled in a home education program (this includes an individual or group program, homeschool, co-op, etc., and is capped at $4,000 per family).
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