“With 22,000 students at latest count, the school is the giant among Russian math programs, boasting 15 branches in Massachusetts, where it began, and 40 in total across the country.”
The co-founder says one in five elementary students in Newton attends. A 10-year-old explains the appeal: it is way harder than school math. Parents are paying a private chain to do what the public schools don’t. Kids whose families can’t pay get only the easy version.