Ending a decades-long partnership in favor of an out-of-state tech company could have drastic effects on the state’s early childhood education system, said Lauren Stark, an analyst with the progressive Maine Center for Economic Policy. Advertisement “There is not necessarily an incentive for the company to improve early learning or to increase access to affordable childcare. There’s not a public good motivation for them as a for-profit venture capitalist company,” Stark said. “The motivation is to have a greater profit.”
Group appeals Maine’s decision to give education contracts to AI-powered firm
