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Alpha School: Premium Tuition, No Teachers, and the AI Platform Running the Classroom
Alpha School opened in Edmond and Tulsa in August 2026 charging $40,000 tuition while employing no certified teachers by design: students do two hours of laptop-based “2 Hour Learning,” attend afternoon life-skills workshops, and are monitored by systems that photograph them when progress flags.
Founded by MacKenzie Price and backed by Joe Liemandt, Alpha uses nonprofit schools contracting with for-profit vendors tied to the same principals, raising concerns about private extraction under a public-purpose…
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