An Alt School Approach

From a recent A16z podcast, I learned about the Alt School network of schools in northern California. This network of private "micro-schools" seeks to leverage online learning with small classroom sizes to educate children outside of the standardized testing approach. Since the school has minimal administration personnel and physical buildings and plant to maintain, it is hugely scalable. This prevents their high quality teaching approach from being exclusionary, which is often the case for private schools. It keeps costs down and leaves teachers with enormous autonomy.