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(117,466 posts) Sun Feb 4, 2018, 04:24 PM Feb 2018

Koch family to open new kind of private school at Wichita State University

What if you could create a school from scratch – consult the experts, design the space, hire the teachers and incorporate all the latest research into how children think, move, develop and learn?

What would it look like?

Annie Koch wondered.

And now she and her husband are building it.

Chase and Annie Koch, the son and daughter-in-law of Koch Industries chief Charles Koch, are getting into the private school business in Wichita, financing a new pre-K-through-12th-grade school on the campus of Wichita State University.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article198356249.html

They forgot the "dictate the curriculum" clause in the first paragraph.

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Koch family to open new kind of private school at Wichita State University (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2018 OP

Straight out of the Wellstone ruled Feb 2018 #1

If it's on the campus of WSU TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #2

And it won't be accredited Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #3

Another report that I read indicated that they won't have grades either. TexasTowelie Feb 2018 #4

If they are putting a school together that doesn't have grades, it makes Sophia4 Feb 2018 #5

this is why I have always been against any charters, home schooling or private schools gopiscrap Feb 2018 #6

Wellstone ruled

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1. Straight out of the

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Sun Feb 4, 2018, 04:33 PM

Feb 2018

John Birch Society Hand book. Had this discussion in Poly Sci 201 ,not pretty. Believe this was a piece of the Voucher Legislation in Wisconsin to target Milwaukee School District by one of Wisconsin's former Governor's.