LRN, an experiment on the working class...
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Where's a good muckraker when you need one?
Poor customer service
Low-wage teachers
High turnover
Low-grade curriculum
Large classes
Poor student performance
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/education/k12-inc.html?page=2#scroll_to_reviews=true
K-12 is clearly conducting mass experimentation on US working class children. And for the most part, it's damaging working class communities across the US. Like mass incarceration, cybercharters are a growing and dysfunctional neoliberal response to the urban decay and the hollowing out of America that they have created.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2019/06/24/do-cyber-charter-schools-harm-public-education-for-the-most-disadvantaged/
https://whyy.org/articles/cyber-charters-in-pa-are-wildly-ineffective-and-3-other-takeaways-from-new-stanford-study/
https://dianeravitch.net/2022/08/15/pennsylvania-cybercharters-are-costly-and-academically-inferior/
https://www.edweek.org/technology/cyber-charters-have-overwhelming-negative-impact-credo-study-finds/2015/10
https://aauwstatecollege.org/2020/10/12/can-cyber-charters-make-the-grade/