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How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.thenation.com (Views: 77, Clicks: 9)  View Story

If the national movement to “reform” public education through vouchers, charters and privatization has a laboratory, it is Florida. It was one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual schools”—charters operated online, with teachers instructing students over the Internet—as well as one of the first to use vouchers to channel taxpayer money to charter schools run by for-profits.

1 comments | Tags: florida school reform florida virtual school online schools meridian strategies llc | Topic: Online Learning BAD >_<

#1 by nitajo posted ago +4 apples bad good
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