For Texas families · TEFA
Homeschooling in Texas with TEFA?
Here's exactly how JyoLing fits your award.
Texas Education Freedom Accounts
$2,000
per homeschool student per year
Unlimited is $349.99 — about 17% of the $2,000 homeschool award. One purchase covers every subject for the whole year, leaving most of your award for everything else.
● Odyssey (program administrator) · status: Approved — Odyssey marketplace. Texas does not reimburse purchases made outside the marketplace — buy through your Odyssey account.
TEFA is brand new — applications opened to enormous demand (over 270,000 students applied for the first round, decided by lottery), and the first funds reach families around July 2026. Odyssey administers the program, and homeschool students receive $2,000 per year for curriculum, online programs, tutoring, and other approved categories.
New programs mean rules that are still settling. That's an argument for purchases that are simple to defend: one clearly-itemized, obviously-educational line item. JyoLing is one purchase — curriculum plus AI teaching across every subject — with a dated invoice and a weekly record of verified mastery behind it.
What Texas families should know
The award is $2,000 — spend it deliberately
Homeschool TEFA awards are smaller than the private-school tier ($10,000+). At $349.99 for every subject, Unlimited leaves roughly $1,650 for testing fees, materials, and extracurriculars.
First program year — keep everything
Year-one programs refine their rules as they go. Keep invoices and records for every purchase. Our invoice is clearly dated and itemized; your weekly parent view is a running mastery record.
Texas homeschooling stays free of state registration
Texas homeschools are legally private schools — no registration, no testing mandates. TEFA adds funding on top without changing that; program rules apply only to award spending.
Category decides how much you can spend
Texas caps technology — including "Software Programs" — at 10% of your award, shared across everything technological you buy that year. On a $2,000 homeschool account that is $200 total. Categories like "Online Learning Program" and "Curriculum" carry no such cap. It is the same kind of product and a tenfold difference in what your award will cover.
Built to the Digital SAT blueprint
Our SAT courses follow the College Board's published Digital SAT blueprint. Worth knowing for Texas families: from Fall 2026 applications, a homeschool student seeking top-10% automatic admission to a public university qualifies on an SAT or ACT score, because they have no class rank.
Try everything before you spend a dollar of your award
1
Start free — really free
Every course, every quiz, and your child's first reading, with no card and no time limit. See it teach before you commit anything.
2
Choose Unlimited
One annual pass, one student, every course — no counting, no per-subject purchases, no surprise renewals.
3
Keep your records
The weekly parent view builds your paper trail automatically — verified mastery, week by week.
The flagship: Unlimited — built for award spending
Never count a session. Sathi teaches as much as your student needs, all year.
✓Unlimited AI teaching (fair-use protected)
✓Every course + every new course we launch
✓Weekly parent progress view — verified mastery, not screen time
✓Priority support · 14-day refund · no auto-renew surprises
✓Add a sibling for 30% off
$349.99
/year · one student · same price for everyone
A year of private tutoring: $2,500+
One AP course with a teacher: $399
JyoLing Unlimited: $349.99 for everything
Buy with your award in OdysseyOne AP course with a teacher: $399
JyoLing Unlimited: $349.99 for everything
Log in, then search JyoLing — award marketplaces sit behind your family login, so we can't link you straight to the listing.
Please don't pay us by card if you intend to use your award: Texas can't reimburse purchases made outside the marketplace.
Texas questions, answered straight
How do I buy this with my TEFA award?
Through the Odyssey marketplace — log in to your Odyssey account and search for JyoLing. Texas does not reimburse families for purchases made outside the marketplace, so please do not pay us by card expecting to claim it back. If you would rather try before spending your award, the free layer costs nothing and needs no card.
Will my purchase count against the 10% technology limit?
It should not. The limit applies to a published list of technology categories — laptops, tablets, monitors, calculators, hot spots, "Software Programs" and similar. A self-paced online learning program is a different category, and the eligible-expense rule lists "fees for an online educational course or program" as its own item with no limit attached. Your administrator makes the final call, and we are happy to put that in writing for them.
I didn't win the TEFA lottery. Does JyoLing still make sense?
The free layer is genuinely free — every course, every quiz, your child's first reading, no card. And $99.99/year All-Access or $11.99/month exist precisely for families paying out of pocket. Same public price for everyone, by design.
Does a $2,000 award really cover a year of curriculum?
With one-purchase-covers-everything pricing, yes: $349.99 buys every subject, unlimited AI teaching, and parent records for twelve months. Per-subject vendors can consume the award in two or three courses.
Award figures are program-published ranges and change by year; eligibility and final expense approval always rest with your program administrator. We keep this page updated, and we never say "approved" before it's true.
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Start with the free part. Decide with your award later.
Start free — see your child's first readingAges 13+ · no credit card · program administrators: esa@jyoling.com