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The High School Built for the Student Who Needs a Second Draft
In Santa Paula, an 86-student continuation school treats a missing credit as a solvable problem - and a teenager's past as something other than a verdict.
SchooLinks
SchooLinks is an Austin-based edtech company that builds an all-in-one college and career readiness (CCR) platform for K-12 school districts. It replaces the patchwork of separate counseling, course-planning, career-exploration, work-based-learning and compliance tools with a single student-first system, using behavioral data and machine learning to personalize each student's postsecondary path while giving administrators the accountability and state-reporting tools they need. Founded by Katie Fang in 2015, the company operates across 40 states and raised an $80 million Series B in October 2024 - the largest U.S. edtech deal of that year.
Paper
Paper is a Montreal-based education technology company that contracts with K-12 public school districts to give students unlimited, 24/7 access to live online tutoring, writing feedback, and college-and-career planning tools at no cost to families. Founded in 2014 as GradeSlam, it scaled to serve millions of students across hundreds of districts, reached unicorn status with a 2022 Series D, then weathered a sharp contraction in 2024 as pandemic-era school funding dried up.