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Where does all of the money go? New York City is spending nearly $30,000 per student this year.
Bloated administration, expensive tech that doesn't work or is less good at educating than pencil and paper...
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Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)
Want to do some good with your coding skills? Build open source edu-tech. Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.
On the other hand, look at the massive amounts of high-quality data in something like Open Streetmap. It should be possible to do this.
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Oh boy when you find out about all the "edu-tech" companies that have sprouted up, creating "solutions" to non existent "problems". A lot of them also have family/friend relations to local governments :)
Want to do some good with your coding skills? Build open source edu-tech. Imagine questioning the district on why they're spending so much when an open source options is both cheaper and better.
They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/
There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.