More Than SES Providers To Consider (Education Business)

I am as much against waste, corruption, and profiteering as anyone, but I can't help but notice that the attention in this area is so often against the new players in the education industry (SES providers) rather than the ones that have been at least sometimes wasteful and profit-taking for years: the professional development industry, the curriculum and materials folks (not just big publishing companies), the ed tech folks, etc. Education is a $500B/year endeavor, which means that there is a lot of money flowing around. Let's not make a mountain out of the SES molehill and lose sight of the much bigger budgets out there for other things.

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