This sounds a lot like the recent conversation we had in class around market driven K-12 disruption with stockholders holding the power…
” ‘The stockholders benefit from those students’ enrollments, but the students get stuck with a lousy education that will follow them the rest of their lives,’ says Jeff Bryant, the director of the Education Opportunity Network.” More at http://www.thenation.com/article/181762/venture-capitalists-are-poised-disrupt-everything-about-education-market
…yet this assumes K-12 education is a tame problem.