Virtual Drop out Schools

http://www.ohio.com/news/local/successful-dropout-schools-are-turning-from-white-hat-computer-model-1.491112

Cui Bono (who profits)
Again, profits over results and students.

"With computers replacing teachers and a school day shortened to four hours, the model was profitable.

Funding was and is given on a per-pupil basis. Within a year of opening, enrollment at Bowery Street swelled to 2.5 times the building’s occupancy limit by serving students in shifts and assuming a high rate of absenteeism, according to an administrator who now operates a competing educational management company.
“Students are overenrolled for each session due to the high absence rate, which is not unexpected for this at-risk population of high school dropouts,” David Stiles told the school’s board in 2000. Stiles has since parted ways with White Hat. He now works for Cambridge Education Group, a subsidiary of a Florida company that operates Invictus High School in Cleveland and Towpath Trail in Akron, among other schools.
In 2010, a Florida school district investigated a Life Skills facility, which it sponsored. The investigation found that White Hat over-reported 37 students to the state, which overpaid the company $101,000."

Now Pearson wants into this profitable action by setting up their own drop out schools with the assistance of ex- White Hat employees such as Ray Lambert.