Education Pamela Hobart of G.T. School says a lot of schools are lying to parents. | (Wave Break Media Ltd/Dreamstime) If you've heard of Alpha School, you've heard the pitch: two hours of AI tutoring in the morning, life skills in the afternoon, no teachers, top-2 percent standardized test scores. It's the Austin, Texas, tech-money education project that's been profiled credulously and picked apart skeptically in roughly equal measure over the past year.