New Website Exposes Privatization: Focus this Week on K-12 On-Line Schools | janresseger

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New Website Exposes Privatization: Focus this Week on K-12 On-Line Schools

Posted on October 3, 2013 by janresseger

The Center for Media and Democracy, which has explored the secretive American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in its long-term project ALECexposed.org, has launched a new project—OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org—to help “taxpayers identify the corporations seeking to privatize public assets and services in their communities: including their schools, roads, prisons, drinking water, court systems, and more.”

Yesterday OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org reported on K-12, the cyber school giant in From Junk Bonds to Junk Schools: Cyber Schools Fleece Taxpayers for Phantom Students and Failing Grades. K-12, the giant cyber school network that claims to enroll 77,000 students nationwide, was launched in the 1990s with an investment of $10 million by “junk-bond king Michael Milken.”

According to OursourcingAmericaExposed.org, K-12 prioritizes enrollment over quality education. “Evidence is mounting that for-profit charters spend a massive amount on