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Category: Policy

Alpha School and Founders School just cybercharters reborn

Recently within my alumni community there was a discussion of Founders School - a private for profit school which is a specialty school under the umbrella of Alpha School. The deal is that at Founders school, tuition is $150,000 a year which is higher than the $30,00 to $75,500 for the other Alpha Schools but they're offering a tuition back guarantee if a student hasn't started a business that has returned one million dollars in gross profit by graduation.

Switching Domains

So, while I'm working on getting off of Google, I thought it was also time to unlink my blog from GitHub. It's still, at least for the time being, hosted on GitHub but I've switched it over to my domain. The blog's official address is now cestlaz.zamansky.net. The old address of cestlaz.github.io should still work since it's still hosted on GitHub. I'll probably move the actual hosting somewhere else at some point int he future.

Choosing our platforms

In my Blog Reboot post I talked about blogging being a fading pastime. Over at Irreal, JCS responded that his experience says otherwise and that his RSS feeds in fact experiencing a rebirth. Both can be true. I've also seen an increase in what are essentially blogs - more people on Substack and the like - I regularly read Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's substack as well as others. On the other hand, there's clearly been a dropoff in CS Education related blogging and also less dialog on the blogs that are around.