{"slug": "alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center", "title": "Alpha School's $65,000 Manhattan pitch tests the line between AI school and homeschool center", "summary": "Alpha School cofounders MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched a $65,000-a-year Manhattan campus to wealthy New York parents in fall 2025, despite WIRED reporting the facility is not actually a school. The AI-powered education model was presented at information sessions in Lower Manhattan, raising questions about whether the program qualifies as a legitimate school or functions as a homeschool center.", "body_md": "MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt are bringing Alpha School's AI powered education model to Manhattan with a $65,000 a year campus that WIRED reported is being pitched to New York parents even though WIRED characterized it as not actually a school. According to WIRED, Alpha School executives held information sessions for wealthy New York City parents in Lower Manhattan in fall 2025. Some were hosted by Price, whom WIRED identifies as Alpha School's cofounder, and Liemandt, described in the sto...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/alpha-school-new-york-ai-campus-not-school", "published_at": "2026-06-04 15:04:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-04 15:16:29.349966+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Alpha School", "MacKenzie Price", "Joe Liemandt", "WIRED"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/alpha-school-s-65000-manhattan-pitch-tests-the-line-between-ai-school-and-center.jsonld"}}