Advancing
the Goal of Ending Education as We Know
It
Welcome
to the "fork in the road" between the for-profit and the
non-profit efforts to develop Stellar Schools. You have
likely arrived here by having accessed the original Stellar
Schools website: StellarSchools.com. Before we present you
with the links to the forks, let us make brief mention of
our philosophy concerning the important roles that both
non-profit and for-profit efforts can play in establishing
these new kinds of schools.
An important premise in our education reform efforts is
that today's public and private K-12 schools are a
national shame. When
faced with the unpleasant fact that average private schools
cannot maintain even half of their pupils at grade level
(and public schools are far worse) we should wake up and do
something. We think we know how to replace these failed
institutions.
The Stellar Schools project aims to develop new kinds of
K-12 schools in which high quality online instruction
allows children to learn in a self-paced environment. We
hope to replace many of today's dilapidated and
dysfunctional public and private schools with Stellar
Schools that will:
Cure the degradation stemming from social promotion.
Provide higher quality instruction and content.
Operate for significantly less cost than contemporary
schools.
As in so many other commercial ventures, at least as seen
in hindsight, there have often been important contributions
coming from the non-profit world. The complementary roles
foreseen for the non-profit and for-profit efforts are as
follows:
On the non-profit side of the Stellar Schools project, the
primary emphasis will be on research and development. Of
secondary importance will be the establishment and
operation of Stellar Schools networks in which the system
management and school operators remain non-profit. The
Stellar Schools Development Corporation is the vehicle for
these and other relevant non-profit activities.
The for-profit applications of the Stellar Schools concepts
includes the establishment, development, and growth of
commercially operated franchising networks of participating
Stellar Schools. Only the franchisor is required to be
for-profit, thus allowing non-profit and even public
franchisee schools in the system. This Stellar Schools
Franchising project is the primary focus of the for-profit
Asora Education Enterprises. Asora also provides a number
of other contract services to the education industry.
Our philosophy sees the advantages of both non-profit and
for-profit efforts in these areas. We believe the former is
stronger in the research and development areas though we do
not exclude a for-profit role in that. Conversely, we
believe that for-profit franchisors will likely operate the
best schools and yet we do not rule out non-profit networks
of Stellar Schools.
Since the Stellar Schools project began in the for-profit
world we offer that "fork" first. Click here
to be
taken into the world of Asora Education Enterprises and
their Stellar Schools Franchising project.
Later, we saw the need to have a non-profit effort. That is
now being implemented as the Stellar Schools Development
Corporation which is intended to become a 501(c)(3)
charitable organization. Click here to be
taken into the realm of non-profit Stellar
Schools.