K12 Inc.; Leading the Corporatization of American Education (with thanks to Paul Vallas) - Wait, What?

K12 Inc.; Leading the Corporatization of American Education (with thanks to Paul Vallas) - Wait, What?:

K12 Inc.; Leading the Corporatization of American Education (with thanks to Paul Vallas)

by jonpelto

And now K12 Inc., has ads running in Connecticut even though they aren’t licensed here.

Lets face it, E-Learning is big business, pulling in $5.4 billion a year.

And a primary leader in the “e-learning” industry is the for-profit company K12 Inc., a company formed in 1999.  William Bennett, the right-wing ideologue and Reagan’s former secretary of education, was the company’s first Board Chairman.

According to their investor reports, K12 offers “proprietary curriculum and educational services created for individualized learning for students primarily in kindergarten through 12^th grade…”

The company was originally focused on the home school market. When asked by a