Today California announced the introduction of legislation to require schools to accept credit for certain online courses, including those offered by MOOC providers like Udacity and Coursera.
Let’s review the logic of this process.
- Massively cut funding to California public education.
- Simultaneously, reduce public receipts, in part by offering massive tax forgiveness to the most profitable California industrial sector, technology.
- Reframe the higher education situation as “unsustainable” even in the face of 1. and 2.
- Introduce legislation that offloads public solutions to 1. to the private benefit of industries reflected in 2.
- Feel gratified that, in addition to 1. and 2., California already funds its prisons so generously, so that those otherwise served by real solutions to 1. will have a future.