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Everyone else besides the selected students.

You won't have created any kind of scalable / repeatable model that would work at the regional or national level; nobody is going to raise taxes enough to fund that and most people aren't going to sign up to send their kids off to boarding school for K-12.

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I disagree that it isn't scalable and repeatable. Have you seen what the budget of these schools is like? A billion dollars is not a small amount of money, regardless of what Silicon Valley acquisitions make you think.

If we spend that money on institutions that actually WORK, we could do a lot. If we need to build those institutions outside the city, to get them away from the clutches of the political machines in those cities ... then we do THAT.

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