Texas EFA Vendor Analysis

Python scripts and a research workbook for examining Texas Education Freedom Account school listings.

Published in
Texas AFT
Date
January 2026
Topic
Education policy, school choice, public education funding
Publication
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I built this pipeline to examine the Texas Education Freedom Account school-finder data outside its search interface. It collects the Comptroller’s vendor feed and supporting metadata, normalizes the records, and adds county, school-district, and education-service-center geography.

The outputs include vendor-level CSVs and an Excel workbook with filterable tables for services, specialties, and vendor types. Cached source files and geographic inputs document how the records were collected and joined.

The repository includes the code and output files for reviewing which schools and services are listed and where they are located.