We Are The Voice of Texas Private Schools
The Texas Private Schools Association supports and advocates for Texas private schools so they can serve the needs of Texas students.
We Support Educational Excellence
With over 900 accredited private schools serving 290,000 students in every corner of the state, TPSA provides resources, advocacy, and representation to help schools pursue academic excellence, to assist them in growing to meet Texas’ needs, and to protect them from excessive regulation.
We Advocate for Independence
TPSA plays a critical role in the Texas educational landscape by representing private schools in both Austin and Washington, D.C., ensuring they remain independent. Recent advocacy efforts on legislative issues such as school safety, student privacy, curriculum standards, admissions policies, and private school rights have protected the state’s private schools from onerous regulations.
School Choice Information for Families
Get up-to-date information about school choice in Texas, including details about the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program and FAQ’s.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is preparing to launch its annual survey to produce its latest “nation’s report card.” If your school is selected, please choose to participate and help give private schools a voice in the national education conversation. Learn more about what subjects will be surveyed, and when: ... See MoreSee Less
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Information for private schools participating in NAEP assessments.On this Veteran’s Day, TPSA thanks our nation’s military veterans who today are working in our education system to serve students in our private schools. ... See MoreSee Less
TPSA’s Laura Colangelo discusses Texas Education Freedom Accounts with American Association of Christian Schools and TPSA Board Member Matt Ticzkus and State Rep. John McQueeney for Texas at an American Association of Christian Schools conference. ... See MoreSee Less
TPSA testified at a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality hearing on Wednesday to support a recommendation that schools be considered an "affected person," and therefore allowed to protest on behalf of its students, when concrete batch plants seek permits to build new facilities nearby. You can see TPSA’s testimony here: app.uslege.ai/share/693dff90-3dc6-4d62-817c-51ee2482c03e ... See MoreSee Less
Deadline extended: If your school didn’t submit a response to our Texas Education Freedom Accounts survey, you now have until the end of Friday! We have about 500 responses so far, which will give us robust data, but we’d still love to hear from you if we haven’t already.
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Our last TEFA Implementation Mini-Summit is Friday in Tyler – it’s not too late to register.
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We appreciate being asked to share the latest information with an interested audience at San Marcos Academy - thank you for the invitation!A big thank-you to Laura Colangelo, Executive Director of the Texas Private Schools Association, for leading tonight’s Texas Education Freedom Accounts Symposium on our campus!
She shared valuable information and answered questions from over 50 attendees.
Want to learn more about TEFA? Contact us or the Texas Private Schools Association. #TEFA #texasprivateschool #smafamily ... See MoreSee Less
Today is Election Day, with 17 proposed state constitutional amendments on the ballot. Make your voice heard. And congratulations to first-time student voters! ... See MoreSee Less
We were honored last week to have a special guest at our TEFA Implementation Mini-Summit in The Woodlands – former Sen. Brandon Creighton, author of the ESA bill! We presented him with a thank him for his hard work on the bill and support of Texas private schools. He recently left the Senate to become chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.
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