Jeff Bezos preschool, Jeff Bezos is about to open a tuition-free preschool called

 Jeff Bezos preschool, Jeff Bezos is about to open a tuition-free preschool called.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is weeks away from opening the doors to his first preschool, the Bezos Academy. 

Bezos on Tuesday shared a photo of one of the classrooms on his Instagram, revealing that the school, which is located in Des Moines, Washington, will open on October 19. Bezos said the school is "the first of many free preschools that we'll be opening for underserved children."

Bezos Academy is a "Montessori-inspired" preschool that will serve children between the ages of 3 and 5. The schools will be full-day and year-round, and will be tuition free for its students. 

According to a post on the Bezos Academy Instagram account, the team began working on the schools early last year. Other posts from the page, which began posting photos in August, show Bezos touring Montessori schools around the country, meeting with students in Nashville and Washington, DC.

Bezos announced his push into education in 2018, when he unveiled his two philanthropic initiatives: the Day 1 Families Fund and the Day 1 Academies Fund. Both initiatives are funded by the Bezos Day One Fund, to which Bezos committed $2 billion at the time.

The mission of the Academies Fund was to create a network of preschools in which "the child will be the customer." The schools will be directly operated by Bezos' fund, which "creates an opportunity to learn, invent, and improve" upon early childhood education, according to the fund's website.

The schools began hiring for several positions, including Montessori specialists and a head of school, earlier this year, GeekWire reported at the time. Mike George, Amazon's former vice president of Echo and Alexa, currently leads the Academies Fund's efforts.

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