It’s not too late to register for a full-day conference where you can learn how to get rich investing in education. You can still register to find out how big equity investors are making profits in education and plan to make even more.
Of course, you must come up with $1,395 if you want to be there. Or you can shell out only $495 to get the audio.
You can rub shoulders or elbows or knees with middle-size names on Wall Street. Real live hedge fund managers, the guys who think that charter schools will save the schools from lazy tenured teachers who get paid just to have years of experience and degrees.
The location is secret, for obvious reasons. Wouldn’t want the rabble to walk around with signs protesting the privatization of education or complaining about vulture capitalists or other hurtful things.
But it will definitely happen in New York City on July 26. Somewhere.
And it is your opportunity to cash in on the big money stream attached to education. Billions of dollars now going to public entities, just waiting to be tapped by entrepreneurs with big ideas. The opportunities are endless.
May I say, speaking just personally, that this is the one thing in education that makes me maddest. I can’t remember a time in our history until recently when there were K-12 for-profit schools and for-profit “universities.”
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No other profession on the planet allows outsiders to tell it how to operate. I share your frustration.
Perhaps there is a ray of light here…..if I was any kind of investor I’d be very leery of companies with “expertise” in as many fields as they list in their sidebar. Seems like the fleecers might be fleeced on this one. But maddening? Yes, to anyone who cares about education.
Should President Obama be held accountable for the destruction public education? I say yes. Teachers should not vote for him. I realize the alternative could be worse but if teachers can show they can make a difference in an election (5 million) then maybe politicians will begin to listen.
Yet, despite Obama pretty much being Republican-light on education, one of the teacher’s unions magazines had a glowing, multi-page endorsement of him. Florida is part of the NEA and AFT and I can’t remember which organization’s magazine did the endorsement. I get that they support him for other policies, but they could be more critical of him on the issue that is the number one priority of the organization. There was a blog written by someone who attended the NEA RA meetings, and they were apparently urged not to throw Arne Duncan under the bus.
Although I am not a middle-market investor, I sure did learn a whole bunch over at the Capital Roundtable website. You see, I did not know this:
“Education is now the second largest market in the U.S., valued at $1.3 trillion. So while an industry of this size will always be scrutinized by regulators, the most onerous recent changes are likely over, and investors should face an easier climate down the road. And while eventual passage is not guaranteed, several pieces of legislation favoring the for-profit industry have been proposed in Congress.”
And I have been following Arne Duncan and the Race to the Top but it was nice to see the following in black and white.
“In the K-12 space, the federal “Race To The Top” initiative has enabled a growing level of privatization in the K-12 segment, and rewarding districts for embracing alternative models, technological advances, and locally-based criteria.”
So in this new “space” public education is a market not a public good. RTTT enabled privatization. OK, now I get it.
To Michael, I think we should hold President Obama and Duncan accountable. And when we have a 2 tiered education system where the haves send their kids to schools with 18 kids in a class and a well rounded curriculum and the have nots send their kids to schools with more tests, inexperienced teachers, and a drill and kill math and ELA only curriculum. We can hold them accountable for that too.