Parents pay $75k for Alpha's AI school. Half of its students missed math target

Internal data reported by The New York Times show that only 42% of Alpha School students met the network's goal of learning twice as fast in both math and reading, with about half of K-8 students at its private campuses missing the math target. Alpha, which charges up to $75,000 a year and uses "guides" rather than traditional teachers alongside its TimeBack AI tutor app, is expanding into public schools, where more than 2,600 students in Texas and South Carolina now use its platform.