What do you actually do to find out what the regulations for 50 states are and how to comply? Just hire experts?
Yup. Seems crazy but a lot of people make their living that way.
I work for a DC-based non-profit. As we solicit donations in all 50 states, we have to register in all 50 states and meet their varied paperwork requirements. A small industry has sprung up around non-profit state registrations, and we are happy to outsource to it; we'd never manage it otherwise.
Pretty sure that information is wrong, because I was born in 1989...
Hmmm. > Lambda, Inc. of California, doing business as Lambda School, operates as a school. The School offers course such as computer science, software engineering, machine learning, web developing, and java script learning programs. Lambda School serves clients in the State of California. > SUB-INDUSTRY > Educational Services > WEBSITE > www.lambdaschool.com So far so good. The address does appear to be wrong, judgin…
All of that seems right except the year (and the fact that I don't have that phone number anymore)
This is actually a good case for the concept as some states will improve their processes to better work with educators like Lambda and the learnings will spread to many of the other states over time. The only way for their to have been a unified process for paperwork, previously, would have been to require too much and to implement a process to prevent states from proactively updating their process quickly enough to…
There's really not much pressure for states to adopt best practices. I work at a tax policy think tank, and a lot of the most populous and richest states also have some of the most poorly constructed tax code (e.g., CA's Prop 13). They can get away with it because people want to live and work there regardless. The network effects of established urban areas--especially with specialized industries like Silicon Valley h…
I certainly don’t dispute your assessment there, as an IL resident. In quieter areas where regulators have more ability to make changes without making newspaper headlines, and a larger portion of a department’s scope can be covered at a specialized conference, don’t better practices spread a little more quickly?
It’s true. Our counsel informed us that we didn’t need to register. Counsel was wrong. Now we have new counsel :) We’ve submitted all the paperwork and have worked closely with California. This all happened a long time ago. I’m not sure what the right level of regulation is (it’s hard taking care of 50 states at once - one state registration was 2,277 pages and weighed 25 pounds https://twitter.com/austen/status/1153…
25 lbs of paperwork to register an online school? Sounds less about protecting students and more towards protecting incumbents and cronies.
It's mostly due to common law, which has some imperfections like progressively growing legal bases instead of pre-definitions.
I used to run a pizzaria and the health inspector would stick around for ages, because he couldn't find anything to site me for. I combed through the specs and found something to keep him happy. It turns out to be a minor NY health code violation to store clothing on the same storage unit as food. So I attached a coat rack to the shelf that held sealed canned good. Problem solved.
You added a duck! https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
I'm 100% going to start doing Yoda Conditions. It's genius
When the government makes you waste a a day filling out paperwork to prove that your dog food doesn’t contain human remains, don’t blame the regulators. Blame the guy before you who made a buck by vertically integrating his cannery and his morgue.
A long time ago, I worked in defense. Our design engineers had to fill out government paperwork (many pages) that provided an estimate for how long the rest of the government paperwork would take.
To be fair, doesn't that describe agile development as well?
Why are Americans invested in their own employer? It serms excessively correlated. My company pays my pension into index funds.
This has changed for many large US companies when it comes to their 401k plans which are often the main vehicle for retirement savings (https://www.thestreet.com/story/13151412/1/how-your-retireme...). There are still many opportunities for a poorly balanced portfolio.
That's the nice thing about the aligned incentives of Lambda School.
I'd like to know more about that. It sounds like a great idea!
Students pay $0 unless they get hired in a software role making $50k/yr or more.
So it’s not in our best interest to string someone along who can’t write fizzbuzz.
We use mastery-based progression so realistically that person wouldn’t progress past the first week or two, then would repeat until he or she had mastered the content.
After reading this thread and considering it, the regulations seem fine, but lack of consistency between states seems to be a large pain-pont. I realize California isn't just "any" state but needing to seek unique approval from up to all 50 states just to run an online school seems like a really high (and expensive) bar. It would be nice if more states cooperated on things like this. Then you seek approval from the c…