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Stephen Downes

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Oh this is so silly. On the one hand, what we have is something we have so long been waiting for - a way to substantially reduce the cost of providing quality education. And as we suspected, it comes to us via online learning. So where do those savings go? Into lower costs for parents and taxpayers? No, of course not. They go into providing 50 percent profit margins for private schools competing against building-bound traditional schools for the same education dollar. So in Ohio, where this is being played out, where is the battle? Is it an effort to get the public system to implement online learning. No, of course not. The effort instead is to prevent the charter schools from offering a lower cost education. Sheesh.

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