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Fast track legislation to fully fund and fully accredit online Educational institutions, such as Kahn Academy and others

Created by L.B. on January 18, 2013

Asking the current Adminstration to fast track and implement legislation requiring the Department of Education to fully fund and accredit online educational institutions such as Khan Academy, MIT OpenCourseware, and others like it which offer free online Educational materials, meeting this objective would do the following

- Economic:
o Allow for meeting the demands of specialized knowledge in the Job market place
o Allow for flexible reentry into a variety of Job Market
o Create and incentivize demand for Educators and Teachers

- Fiscal:
o Lower educational spending while expanding educational availability
o Allowing the minimization of current need for Federal Student Aid

- Societal:
o Expand education to lower income residents and freely maximizing the availability to everyone else

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