The state's charter school board approved an application on Monday from Unbound Academy to open a school with a two-hour per day academic curriculum set by AI.

Should we hire more teachers, increase their funding? Nono, let’s do two hours of ai slop and call it a day.

  • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    IIRC charter schools are also able to pick and choose the students with the highest test scores while blocking lower-scoring students from going to them. They then point to their schools having higher test scores as a reason why public schools should be further defunded.

    • Wakmrow [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 days ago

      And they expel students with behavioral problems or learning disabilities, thrusting them on an underfunded public school system and again inflating results.