Comments on: Fusion Academy and Learning Center coming to Walnut Creek http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2011/10/14/fusion-academy-and-learning-center-coming-to-walnut-creek/ Thu, 23 May 2013 14:52:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Concerned Parent http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2011/10/14/fusion-academy-and-learning-center-coming-to-walnut-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-10626 Concerned Parent Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:37:33 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/?p=5308#comment-10626 It looks like this is a for-profit school aimed at particular slice of the market. I would think the Flex Academy will be significant competition for it, particularly since the Flex Academy plans to open in Walnut Creek, too, and it will be free.

The Flex Academy people have the better business model. They use tax dollars to open as a non-profit charter, but they’re really just an arm of K12, Inc., a for-profit company from which they buy all the courseware for their computer-based curriculum. The Executive Director of Flex Public Schools, Mark Kushner, is a VP of K12, Inc.

]]> By: Wendy Lack http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2011/10/14/fusion-academy-and-learning-center-coming-to-walnut-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-10566 Wendy Lack Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:41:28 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/?p=5308#comment-10566 To answer your question, Theresa, “yes.”

More choice is always beneficial, both for the individual families who may choose to utilize this new school option, as well as other area schools.

That’s also why the charter option at CVHS is such a positive development for all MDUSD families (despite the fact that some charter opponents, including some at the District, would like to assert otherwise).

Competition is a healthy way to improve services for all. The more marketplace competition, the better even ol’ MDUSD will perform. Availability of new school options gives more leverage to District schools to gain greater degrees of freedom at each school site, so they have flexibility to respond to local needs rather than operate using a one-size-fits-all rigid District-wide business model.

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