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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1267538" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">Big Government’s Fist Crushes Tech Training Outfits</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">A handful of California coding bootcamps are fighting for survival after receiving a stern warning from regulators.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">Unless they comply, these organizations face imminent closure and a hefty $50,000 fine. These organizations have two weeks to start coming into compliance.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">In mid-January, the </a><a href="http://www.bppe.ca.gov/" target="_blank">Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE)</a> sent cease and desist letters to <a href="http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/" target="_blank">Hackbright Academy</a>, <a href="http://www.hackreactor.com/" target="_blank">Hack Reactor</a>, <a href="http://appacademy.io./" target="_blank">App Academy</a>, <a href="http://zipfianacademy.com/" target="_blank">Zipfian Academy</a>, and others.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">BPPE is a metastasis of the malignant state bureaucracy charged with licensing and regulating postsecondary education. Probably because no one had ever seen a need for it, it didn’t come into existence until 2010. BPPE has not yet granted the tech boot camps permission to exist.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">The 10- to 12-week boot camps teach people to code in order to meet the demand for developers. At Hack Reactor,</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">99 percent of students are offered a job at companies like Adobe and Google. According to Phillips, the average salary for a computer scientist at these firms is over six figures.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">Many of these boot camps have a strong social purpose: They specialize in bringing diversity to the tech sector and in helping underemployed or unemployed Californians find jobs. Hackbright, for instance, </a><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/10/hackbright/" target="_blank">specializes in teaching women to code</a> so they can compete for lucrative computer engineering jobs.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">The bootcamps fear that they will go bankrupt as regulatory processes can take up to 18 months.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">In other words, the 2-week deadline for compliance is a death sentence. Once again coercive statism strangles innovation in its crib.</a></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868" target="_blank">http://moonbattery.com/?p=41868</a></strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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