This article explores how powerful networks and think tanks, including the Koch-SPN coalition and the Silicon Valley PayPal Mafia, are converging technologies like blockchain, stablecoins, and AI with federal education reforms. They aim to privatize and digitize school choice subsidies using digital wallets, stablecoins, and social credit analytics, establishing a comprehensive digital infrastructure that links education finance with a social credit economy under AI governance. These developments are driven by venture capital investments and government contracts, with the goal of creating a centralized, surveilled, and programmable educational funding system intertwined with blockchain and AI technologies, ultimately reshaping the landscape of public and private education funding and control.

OPINION A bus bearing Harvard University's seal is reflected in a window in Cambridge on July 2.SOPHIE PARK/NYT Kirsten Weld is a professor of history at Harvard University and president of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Andrew Manuel Crespo is a pro...