November 14, 2026

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The Billion-Dollar Business of Virtual Public Schools


US online public schools are enrolling more students than they did during the pandemic, and nowhere has the expansion happened faster than in Texas. But what does this trend mean for the education students receive?

Texas Pays Online School Empire for Kids Who Don’t Show Up: https://bloom.bg/3WvrTGi

Stride, the nation’s largest operator of virtual public schools, has collected more than a billion dollars in taxpayer money in Texas alone.

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