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Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts) Thu Jul 11, 2013, 01:47 PM Jul 2013

Achieving the Dream

http://www.luminafoundation.org/newsroom/Jan2005/AtD.html

Seems like a fine idea. So why are the Koch Brothers funding it? I can't figure out their angle.

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Achieving the Dream (Original Post) Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 OP

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

It started with a bit of hearsay but upon nosing around there seems to be a Lumina-ALEC connection. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2013 #3

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

Warpy

(114,671 posts)

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

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 02:10 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.

raccoon

(32,468 posts)

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

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 02:13 PM

Jul 2013

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

3. It started with a bit of hearsay but upon nosing around there seems to be a Lumina-ALEC connection.

Reply to raccoon (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 11, 2013, 03:01 PM

Jul 2013

Found this article that touches on how ALEC and Lumina are financially intertwined: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/11/993257/-U-of-MN-Goes-to-Koch-Because-of-ALEC#
The Koch brothers, as we read on DU time to time, are behind ALEC (though neither seems to be on the board of directors).

Maybe I'm making too much of it. These SOBs have so much money that a couple hundred G's here and there can look like a rounding error.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)

5. Apparently Lumina severed ties with ALEC prior to their current fiscal year, so...

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 08:55 AM

Jul 2013

...the Kochs are probably not a factor any longer. But if anyone stumbles across other evidence, please post it.

Starry Messenger

(32,382 posts)

4. ACCJC, the accreditation agency that is threatening to to close

Reply to Gidney N Cloyd (Original post)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 03:19 AM

Jul 2013

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City College of San Francisco has Lumina ties.

You can bet there is a privatization angle.

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