If this works, can it be used as an example for better public schools? Even if it's more expensive, one can argue that the increased productivity of well educated kids outweighs the cost of their education.
There is no interest in them.
Zuck's approach appears to be only marginally better and almost entirely devoid of influence from alternative schooling.
The question now would be how much improvement would there be due to actual new methods in delivering the education vs just pouring money onto the problem and cherry picking your students.
They did seem to open the school in a place that could benefit from it as far as the silicon valley area goes, EPO didn't receive as much benefit from the valley as some other areas, Belle Haven is a mixed bag with it being quite popular with silicon valley folks that are looking to find a big enough house for a family but can't afford more sought after locations.
The only grief I really have with this program is that they did not publish their acceptance policy online which doesn't bode well for transparency in that aspect, so cherry picking and gating might be a problem here as well.
Their management team and staff has more accreditations than some school districts combine probably, they have a huge capital investment, so the school should do rather well, but I'm really not sure how much impact it can have in the long term.
Well if a single primary school needs 1 bln or anything close to it to
operate that won't be scale able.
FTA:
Chan did not tell the Mercury News how much she and her husband are contributing
to The Primary School, but when it is fully built, it will serve 50 students
in 14 grades (pre-K through 12) plus the families of their 700 students.