Your Texas Education Freedom Account already pays for a real teacher.

Hey, I'm Josh. If your family has a Texas EFA, you're sitting on money the state set aside for exactly this, and most families haven't found much to spend it on yet. So here's the straight version: a real one-on-one teacher for your child is $29 a month, and your homeschool EFA covers the whole school year with about $1,650 still left over.

✅ Kitchen Table School is an approved Texas EFA vendor.

Approved by Odyssey, the state's marketplace administrator, on September 22, 2026.

You already did the hard part. You applied, you got funded, and the money is sitting in your account in installments (about a quarter arrived July 1, another quarter October 1, and half on February 1). The question every EFA family is asking right now is the same one: what's actually worth spending it on?

Here's one honest answer. Not a workbook that sits in a closet. Not an app your kid pokes at for a week. A patient teacher who sits down with your child every school day, across all five core subjects, and actually teaches.

Your homeschool EFA, per child, per year~$2,000

Kitchen Table School, $29/mo × 12$348

Left for everything else this year~$1,650

Homeschool accounts run about $2,000 a year. Private-school students receive about $10,474, and students with a documented disability up to $30,000, so for many families a full year of teaching is a small slice of what's available. Kitchen Table School lists as curriculum and an online learning program, the category the program funds without the technology cap.

What your EFA is actually buying

A teacher who talks and listens. A warm, real voice. Your child holds a button and talks right back, or types. It's a conversation, not a wall of text.
She teaches at a chalkboard, works problems out one step at a time, and your child solves them on their own whiteboard and shows her.
Real paper, really graded. She prints worksheets to your home printer. Your child does them with a pencil, holds the page up to the camera, and she grades the actual handwriting with specific feedback.
She teaches from the curriculum you already bought, or you can use her built-in year plan. Either way, every session logs which book it came from, so you always have receipts.
Kindergarten through 12th grade, all five core subjects, on real state standards, at your family's own pace.
"On pace" is a fact, not a feeling. A skill only counts as learned when your child shows it on two separate days, and your nightly email tells you plainly where they stand.
Your record-keeping does itself. Attendance, every skill with the dates it was demonstrated, graded work, and your state's requirements in plain language, all in one vault with a print button.

See everything she does, with a two-minute live demo on the home page →

How paying with your EFA will work

Texas EFA funds are spent inside the Odyssey marketplace. Being an approved vendor is the first gate, and we just cleared it. Here's the honest status and the flow:

1. We're approved. Kitchen Table School passed Odyssey's vendor review on September 22, 2026.
2. Our listing goes live in the marketplace this fall. Once it's live, you'll find Kitchen Table School in your Odyssey marketplace under curriculum and online learning programs, and pay for it straight from your EFA balance. No paying out of pocket and waiting on a reimbursement.
3. You start today, for free, either way. The placement warm-up and your child's first look at their teacher don't cost anything and don't need a card. You can see whether this is right for your family right now, and be ready to spend your EFA on it the day the listing opens.

Want me to tell you the moment EFA checkout opens? Start the free placement below and I'll email you the day you can pay with your account. That's it, no spam, no card.

The part no other school on earth can say

This teacher gets measurably better every single night. While your family sleeps, a staff of AI specialists tests her lessons, finds weak spots, drafts fixes, and verifies each one against real teaching before it ships. Whatever fails that bar never reaches your kid.

That's easy to claim and hard to prove, so we don't ask you to trust it. The nightly ledger is public. See exactly what got better last night.

Start free: see where your child stands

No card to start. Run the free placement warm-up, watch her teach, and you'll be ready to spend your EFA on it the day the listing opens.

The honest fine print, because you deserve it before you sign up and not after.

Kitchen Table School is an approved Texas EFA vendor of curriculum and an online learning program. It is a teacher and a curriculum, not an accredited school, and we don't administer state tests. Under the program, you are still the homeschool operator and account holder. We're a Texas company (Kitchen Table School is a trade name of Merlene Mitigation LLC), the whole subscription is an eligible educational expense, and the program charges families no fees to use the marketplace.

Program details like installment dates and exact spending rules are set by the Texas Comptroller and Odyssey, and they can change. We keep our marketplace price the same as our public price, always. When something about the program changes, check your Odyssey account for the current rules. Here's our plain-language guide to Texas TEFA funding.

My own son does real school on this, at our actual kitchen table, every day. I built it because I needed it, and now the state of Texas will help pay for it for your family. That's a rare thing. Come see if it fits.

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About a minute to set up. Your child can meet their teacher today.

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