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Saturday, March 23, 2013

The in box. Defending the profit model. K-12 Inc. | Fred Klonsky

The in box. Defending the profit model. K-12 Inc. | Fred Klonsky:



Every Chicago public school is my school.

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The in box. Defending the profit model. K-12 Inc.

John Laesch
When the K12 Inc. executive stammered, Dean Fisher, a Yorkville School Board member repeated his question, “defend your profit model.”  The questions came after the K12 Inc. corporate executive had made a 20-minute presentation to the board and administrators of Yorkville District 115.
The real world questions kept coming like a series of body blows to K12 Inc., the for-profit virtual education provider that has come under fire nationally for low test scores, scandals, lawsuits and cover-ups.K12 inc., a for-profit company is out pushing their business model to 18 suburban school districts in Illinois, attempting to set up an 18-district virtual charter school. With the