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The most important group working in low-cost private schools is Bridge International Academies led by Jay Kimmelman. After selling an assessment system to a publisher 15 years ago he began investigating developing world education in communities where parents are earning less than $2 per day.
With a shared vision to create a high-quality, affordable education system, Kimmelman and cofounder Shannon May launched Bridge in 2007 and opened a school in Nairobi in 2009 and began to engineer out cost and design in quality.
A mobile payment system made the tuition of about $5 per month (now the global average is about $7 per month) easier to pay. By the end of 2010, they had 1,300 students and a well-developed school development system. |