$55K A Year And No Teachers
An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/25/an-ai-elementary-school-with-no-teachers-to-open-in-chicago-this-fall/
Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there's limited evidence the model works.
Filed March 28, 2026 at 8:56 am
Parents appear to be lining up to hand over $55K a year to a school that has no teachers. Austin's Alpha school, which has a curriculum 100% driven by AI, is expanding to Chicago. At that price, this AI experiment had better work to improve education. And if this is the future of education, this is just further proof that the future is already here, it's just unequally distributed.