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IDEA Public Schools company history timeline

2012

The school district cancelled the contract in 2012, and IDEA opened a new school in its own IDEA school district and on its own land about nine miles south of the Allen.

2013

About 80% of the students elected to go to the IDEA school starting in 2013, leaving Allan Elementary empty and unused and taking about $60 million over the subsequent seven years out of the Austin school district.

2016

In 2016 IDEA was in advanced negotiations to establish schools in El Paso and in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and received a $16M donation to expand its operations in Austin from three schools to 26 schools.

2018

In 2018 the San Antonio city government allowed IDEA to issue tax-exempt bonds, which are less expensive than the kinds of bonds it could previously issue.

2019

In 2019 IDEA announced plans to expand in the San Antonio area after the United States Department of Education issued it a $116 million grant.

2022

According to IDEA Public Schools’s Dan Fishman, the company's vice president of growth, the school’s board voted to launch in Jacksonville in 2022.

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Founded
2000
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Headquarters
Weslaco, TX
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Founders
Joann Gama,Mr. Wyatt J. Truscheit,Tom Torkelson,Irma Munoz
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