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July 5, 2020 05:54 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/5/21313895/go-read-this-online-school-elon-musk
Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start
Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually expanding it as a non-profit school for some children of SpaceX employees. He said at the time that his kids’ school wasn’t “doing things I thought should be done,” so he hired away his kids’ teacher to help found the Ad Astra School. It did away with formal grade structures and put a focus on problem solving, per Musk’s direction, and he paid for all the costs involved.
Now, he’s given an initial donation to a new online, for-profit school in Los Angeles, according to an investigation by The Daily Beast. According to business filings uncovered by The Daily Beast, the Astra Nova School, which plans to open in September was...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/5/21313895/go-read-this-online-school-elon-musk
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