Miami-Dade Schools Sever Ties with K12 Online Corp.
The Miami-Dade school board voted to sever ties with the notoriously awful for-profit K12 online corporation.
K12 has long been known as a huge money-maker that produces bad education and high attrition rates.
The Miami-Dade County School Board has voted unanimously to stop using My School Online, the district’s controversial new online learning platform many say is at the center of the failed start of school.
The board voted to sever ties just before 2 a.m. Thursday, 13 hours after the meeting began. Teachers can begin using other platforms immediately.
The early morning decision sent some elementary schools into a scramble. Some schools that never used Microsoft Teams, like Bob Graham Education Center, were caught off guard and quickly went to work to set up Zoom meetings to find a way to educate students.
The School Board debate and vote stretched into the middle of the night because members had to finish public comment on Vice Chair Steve Gallon’s catch-all proposal to get to the bottom of what went wrong. In the first board CONTINUE READING: Miami-Dade Schools Sever Ties with K12 Online Corp. | Diane Ravitch's blog