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It’s quite different. 1) Risk: the school takes risk and would go out of business if it didn’t add value to students in the form of higher salaries. 2) Volition: school and student choose each other. Third parties are not billed or compelled in this economic transaction. twitter.com/neill4illinois

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Scott Farrar

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Jan 8, 2019

Alternative schools do go out of business (or change form, such as AltSchool itself). Wonder is this risk better than risk of public school quality? I also think: reasons public schools close. enrollment drop when families choose alt? alt.schools rspnsbl for pblc repurcussions?

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One noticing: this risk is substantially mitigated when learning “products” are finer-grained. LS is 8 months long, so odds and costs of interruption for a given student are lower. “Liquidity” is costly in K-12.

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