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Education

Warpy

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

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 01:10 PM

Jul 2013

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.

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Well, they're "only" two year degrees Warpy Jul 2013 #1

Where are you getting that the Koch brothers are funding it? I didn't see that anywhere. nt raccoon Jul 2013 #2

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Apparently Lumina severed ties with ALEC prior to their current fiscal year, so... Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #5

ACCJC, the accreditation agency that is threatening to to close Starry Messenger Jul 2013 #4