Texas Education Freedom Accounts fund homeschool families today, plus a gentle read-aloud plan to beat the summer slide.
Show Notes
On July first, Texas homeschool families approved for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts program receive their full two-thousand-dollar award, deposited into a secure Odyssey digital wallet. Silas Penn walks through what the deposit means, why stewardship comes before spending, and a simple summer read-aloud plan to keep your kids sharp through the season.
In this episode:
- Texas Education Freedom Accounts: homeschool families receive the full two-thousand-dollar award today, July first, as the nations largest day-one school choice program funds over one hundred thousand students.
- Beat the summer slide: a gentle, Charlotte Mason read-aloud habit, fifteen minutes a day with a living book, to hold reading skills over the summer.
- Your Homeschool Win Today: pull one unfinished book off the shelf and read the next chapter out loud before lunch.
Links:
- Texas Education Freedom Accounts (official): https://educationfreedom.texas.gov/
- Fox 34, What Texas families need to do before first payments arrive (June 30, 2026): https://www.fox34.com/2026/06/30/texas-education-freedom-account-what-families-need-do-before-first-payments-arrive/
- Reading Rockets, Summer reading loss: https://www.readingrockets.org/topics/summer-reading/articles/summer-reading-loss
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