Achieving the Dream

[Gidney N Cloyd]

http://www.luminafoundation.org/newsroom/Jan2005/AtD.html

Seems like a fine idea. So why are the Koch Brothers funding it? I can't figure out their angle.

[Warpy]

1. Well, they're "only" two year degrees

and would leave the class privilege of the baccalaureate without a crippling burden of debt intact. It's basically trade schooling for the masses so employers won't be forced to go back to an apprenticeship system wherein it costs a fortune to train new hires. Students pay for that, instead.

That's probably their angle.

[raccoon]

2. Where are you getting that the Koch brothers are funding it? I didn't see that anywhere. nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. It started with a bit of hearsay but upon nosing around there seems to be a Lumina-ALEC connection.

Found this article that touches on how ALEC and Lumina are financially intertwined: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/11/993257/-U-of-MN-Goes-to-Koch-Because-of-ALEC#
The Koch brothers, as we read on DU time to time, are behind ALEC (though neither seems to be on the board of directors).

Maybe I'm making too much of it. These SOBs have so much money that a couple hundred G's here and there can look like a rounding error.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Apparently Lumina severed ties with ALEC prior to their current fiscal year, so...

...the Kochs are probably not a factor any longer. But if anyone stumbles across other evidence, please post it.

[Starry Messenger]

4. ACCJC, the accreditation agency that is threatening to to close

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City College of San Francisco has Lumina ties.

You can bet there is a privatization angle.