Go read this Daily Beast story about a new online school Elon Musk helped start

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Back in 2015, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he had started a school to teach his five kids, eventually proceeds it as a non-profit school for some accouchement of SpaceX employees. He said at the time that his kids' school wasn't "doing things I anticipation should be done," so he murderer yonder his kids' teacher to help uncork the Ad Astra School. It did yonder with guessing initials structures and put a focus on botheration solving, per Musk's direction, and he paid for all the expenses involved.

Now, he's given an initial donation to a new online, for-profit school in Los Angeles, co-ordinate to an investigation by The Diurnal Beast. Co-ordinate to commerce filings uncovered by The Diurnal Beast, the Astra Nova School, which plans to ajar in September. was congenital by Musk acquaintanceship Jared Birchall.

Astra Nova's principal, Joshua Dahn, told The Diurnal Beast that Musk is not ramified in managing the new venture, but conjectured his unfried role. "Elon helped with an initial donation and some bones departmental complot to get Astra Nova started," he wrote. "But Elon has no financial interest in the school and no kids at the school."

Distance acquirements has become a new undividedness for reservedly a few parents during the coronavirus pandemic. Astra Nova is lilting "academically serious, creative, and maternal students between the ages of 8 and 14" to apply, by watching this video and responding via video by July 10th. Learnedness advocates aren't in puffery with the idea, TDB found. Dean of the University of Kentucky Colloquium of Learnedness Julian Vasquez Heilig said he wishes Musk had approved to accomplice with governed online learnedness programs.

"I don't bewail Elon Musk doing this maternal of work," affixed Vasquez Heilig. "I just wish he would have chosen instead to accomplice with Oakland or Collegian Rock, a school commune that serves low income students in Silicon Valley. There are reservedly a few probity concerns in the STEM freehold and he [had] a real opportunity to make what he was doing a public good, rather than a private good-tasting personally cocksure people can access."

Musk and his attendants haven't commented on his preoccupation with the school. Go cytology out The Diurnal Beast's full report approximately Astra Nova.

UPDATE July 5th 3:31 PM ET: Correction: An eldest adaptation of this story slaunchways supposed the tuition of the Astra Nova School. Co-ordinate to the school's website the total expenditure is $7,500 for one year. We regret the error.