If you spent any part of your holiday scrolling the tech press on your phone, you doubtlessly saw headlines announcing that the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools approved a virtual charter school application for Unbound Academy. You could find this news in Vice, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Popular Science, and other outlets.There are two reasons why Unbound Academy’s charter application received so much more attention than the many other charters granted across the US in 2024.One, because Unbound...