TEFA Special Education Application Assistance

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These resources can help families gather the needed documentation for the Texas Education Freedom Account application, especially if their child has special needs. They are available in English and Spanish.

As the comptroller’s office finalizes the application and updates processes for private school parents to access their IEPs and Unique Identification Numbers, we will update this page and inform all Catholic school principals.

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This website includes helpful FAQs and a Smart Assistance AI tool (bottom right corner of the page) to assist with very specific questions.

Guidance for Public Schools: When parents are contacting public school districts to request the upload of their IEP or their UID number, it’s possible that some public school ISD staff will not have the latest guidance from TEA. Parents can share this link with their public school special education directors to help inform them of the TEA guidance on these issues.