Peter Greene reports that ECOT (the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow) has found a way to escape its current woes and keep on collecting state money.
Having attracted the ire of the state for inflating enrollment, having lost its court battle to hang on to its profits for producing low-quality education, having been labeled the school with the lowest graduation rate in the nation, what’s an entrepreneur to do?
Go into the business of dropout recovery!
What a clever idea: First you create the dropouts, then you remediate them. Or claim to.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
As Greene points out, the free market does not close these fraudsters down. These grifters reinvent themselves in another form in order to dine on more public dollars. With little to no oversight, there are multiple opportunities for the unethical service providers to take taxpayers and students on a trip to nowhere.
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With a dedicated, serial lying, cheating, life-long fraudster and traitor in the White House and a fraudster Republican Party controlling the three branches of govenrment, this shouldn’t be a surprise.
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The US Department of Ed retweeted an article extolling the virtues of online drop-out recovery.
They are utterly and completely captured by ed reform. It doesn’t matter what crack-pot idea ed reform comes up with, the US Department of Ed will happily sell it to every public school in the country.
I’m not a teacher but why would ANYONE think sticking a kid who dropped out of school in front of a screen would make it better? This is what they need? FEWER human beings involved in their lives?
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Exactly right, Chiara. Kids who dropped out need caring humans, not screens.
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Reason: More $$$$$.
It’s sick no matter how one looks at it.
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Remember a couple of weeks ago when Betsy DeVos wanted to turn public schools into Uber?
Uber lost $3b last year. On pace to lose another $2.8b. Mutual-fund shareholders just wrote down 15% devaluation. Just 2yrs of cash on hand.
These people are reckless, which would be okay if they were using their own money but probably isn’t okay when they’re using yours.
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I refuse to use Uber.
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