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Stephen Downes

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"A private investment firm that owns the largest ice manufacturer in the United States, makes plus-sized clothes and oversees a leading cabinet company has been educating Florida's disabled students — and doing it with taxpayer dollars." Kim Cavanaugh asks, "On how many levels is this wrong?" As he describes the policy, "Let's pull the money out of the public system, give it to entrepreneurs, and let the marketplace decide." I have to agree - it's really hard to see the company's primary motivation as being the welfare of its students.

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