Until recently the SFER Board also included acclaimed education reform financier Jonathan Sackler (Whose activities include funding the Achievement First Inc. charter school chain, forming ConnCAN and 50CAN and serving on the Board of The New Schools Venture Fund) and Rebecca Ledley (A member of the UP
Academy Charter School Company and spouse of Charles Ledley, who serves on the Board of Directors of Education Reform Now (ERN) and its affiliate, Democrats for Education Reform (DFER.)
Not exact matches
Ms. Moskowitz, likening the influential educational network she founded, Success
Academy Charter Schools, to revolutionary
companies like Apple and Google, said she would rather be an education advocate than a mayoral candidate.
A new education management
company, led by the former head of a global electric
company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon
Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of
charter schools.
In 2014, the online
charter school Primavera Technical Learning Center paid a flat fee of $ 12.2 million for software and curriculum services to The American Virtual
Academy, a for - profit
company owned by the
school's
charter holder.
The Plato
Academy charter application is from an out - of - town
charter company with an out - of - town
school board run by a for - profit management
company.
: Executive Director Jumoke
Academy Honors at Milner
School Educational Institution; 51 - 200 employees; Education Management industry July 2012 — July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Hartford, CT Executed launch and strategic plan of historic partnership between a charter school management company and Hartford Public Sc
School Educational Institution; 51 - 200 employees; Education Management industry July 2012 — July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Hartford, CT Executed launch and strategic plan of historic partnership between a
charter school management company and Hartford Public Sc
school management
company and Hartford Public
Schools.
The last - minute changes to the legislation come at a time when one prominent Wilmington - based
charter school operator, Baker A. Mitchell, Jr., has been fighting media requests for months that have asked him to fully disclose the salaries of all employees associated with his
charter schools — teachers as well as employees of his for - profit education management
company, Roger Bacon
Academy.
Some of the new slots will likely be filled by
schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the
charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit
companies like the National Heritage
Academies (which already manage five
charters in the state) and «virtual
charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia
company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.
The report from ProPublica tells the story of Baker Mitchell, a
charter school operator in southeastern North Carolina, and the four
charters that contract with Roger Bacon
Academy, a for - profit
company that Mitchell owns, to operate the
schools.
Parent Involvement in the
School Program 2112.00 Parent Involvement Plan 2112.00 R1 Part - Time Classified Employees 6335.00 Part - Time Employees 6325.12 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Annuities 3921.00 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Annuities 3921.00 R1 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Annuities Approved
Companies 3921.00 R3 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Annuity Deduction Agreement 3921.00 R1E1 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Annuity Requirements for all Vendors 3921.00 R2 Payroll Deductions - Tax Sheltered Life Insurance 3922.00 Performance Contract (Memorandum) 7116.30 E4 Performance Contract (Memorandum) 6222.10 E4 Performance Contract - $ 1,000 or less 7116.30 E2 Performance Contract - $ 1,000 or less 6222.10 E2 Performance Contract - over $ 1,000 not more than $ 5,000 6222.10 E3 Performance Contract - over $ 1,000, not more than $ 5,000 7116.30 E3 Performance Contract - Procedures 7116.30 R1 Performance Contract - Procedures 6222.10 R1 Performance Contract - Wage / Payment & Vendor / Contractor Determination 7116.30 E5 Performance Contract - Wage / Payment & Vendor / Contractor Determination 6222.10 E5 Performance Contracts 6222.10 Performance Contracts 7116.30 Personal Leave - All Employees 6225.00 R3 Personal Property Authorization 3934.00 E1 Personal Purchases by Employees 3872.00 Personnel Files 6410.00 Personnel Files 6410.00 R1 Petty Cash Purchase 3820.00 Physical Assaults and Threats 5610.00 Physical Examinations 6430.00 Physical Examinations 6430.00 R1 Positive Behavior Supports 8400.00 R1 Positive Behavior Supports and Interventions 8400.00 Post-Issuance Compliance for Tax Exempt and Tax Advantaged Obligations 3510.00 Post-Issuance Compliance for Tax Exempt and Tax Advantaged Obligations 3510.00 R1 Probationary Classified Employees 6343.00 Procedure for Workers» Compensation Insurance 6223.60 R1 Professional Staff Evaluation 6192.00 Program Evaluation 0540.00 R1 Program Evaluation 0540.00 Prohibition of Referral or Assistance Property Claim Form 3934.00 E2 Property Inventory 3220.00 Property Inventory 3220.00 R1 Proposed Guidelines for the Provision of Sex Education 7122.40 Public Complaints or Concerns 9600.00 Public Complaints or Concerns 9600.00 R1 Public Complaints or Concerns - Guidelines 9600.00 E1 Public Information Program 9120.00 Public Information Program 9120.00 R1 Public Records 8310.00 R1 Public Records 9110.00 Public Records 9110.00 R1 Public
School Academies (
Charter Schools) 2020.00 Public
School Academies - Review and Approval of Application 2020.00 R1 Purchasing 3810.00 R1 Purchasing 3810.00 Purchasing - Department Responsibilities 3810.00 E1 Purchasing Cards 3810.00 R14
The timing of this hand - out to another Achievement First Inc. employee is particularly noteworthy since it takes place at the very moment that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and Commissioner Pryor are circling the wagons in an attempt to deny any responsibility for the Jumoke
Academy / FUSE
Charter School Management
Company debacle of the past few weeks.
In 2013, three students in Madawaska signed up for Maine Connection
Academy, along with Maine Virtual
Academy, one of two virtual
charter schools in the state, both managed by for - profit
companies.
The Taylor International
Academy in Southfield, Mich., recently closed
school 12 days early, after the
charter's management
company suddenly pulled its staff, including the principal.
Charter schools, such as those associated with Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school management company, consistently fail to provide educational programing to their fair share of non-English speaking students and those who students who need special education se
Charter schools, such as those associated with Achievement First, Inc. the
charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school management company, consistently fail to provide educational programing to their fair share of non-English speaking students and those who students who need special education se
charter school management
company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and the FUSE / Jumoke
Academy charter school management company, consistently fail to provide educational programing to their fair share of non-English speaking students and those who students who need special education se
charter school management
company, consistently fail to provide educational programing to their fair share of non-English speaking students and those who students who need special education services.
The Rise
Academy is a «KIPP
school», KIPP being the nation's largest
charter school management
companies with over 133
schools.
In addition to opening Iberville
Charter Academy, the
company already manages another
school in Baton Rouge.
Company Overview The
Academy Charter Schools offers a rigorous Physical Education curriculum in an... The teacher is responsible for planning, developing, and delivering instruction to groups of 40 - 50...
He is in good
company with
charter school leaders like Lagra Newman, of Nashville's Purpose Preparatory
Academy, a
school of mostly black, brown and poor students where nearly every student is reading at or above grade level.
The old district remains only to pay off debt, while a new district, the Highland Park Public
School Academy System is run by a charter school management co
School Academy System is run by a
charter school management co
school management
company.
Among today's employment advertisements is a job opening for a «Test Writer,» which is part of the Department of Data and Accountability (D&A), at the
Charter Management
Company, known as
Academy Charter Schools.
In her report, Wang finds the four
charter schools Mitchell was instrumental in creating all hired the same for - profit management
company, Roger Bacon
Academies, which is also owned by Mitchell.
Summerfield
Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford
Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest
charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford
charter school management
companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford County.
Academica West and Eminent Technical Solutions aren't simply ground - maintenance
companies — they function as the information technology and human resources departments for Ascent
Academy and 16 other
charter schools, which on paper are their own
school districts.
In 2015, a campaign - finance complaint was filed against South Jordan Republican Sen. Lincoln Fillmore over a $ 1,000 donation from American Preparatory
Schools, the private company that manages Utah's network of American Preparatory Academy charter s
Schools, the private
company that manages Utah's network of American Preparatory
Academy charter schoolsschools.
The New Jersey Virtual
Academy Charter School had been recruiting students for months and intended to open this fall for 850 students in grades K - 10, according to Jeff Kwitowski, a spokesman at Virginia - based K12, a for - profit online learning
company.
One of the organizations that stand to gain the most is Achievement First, Inc., the «
Charter School Management»
company that presently has 19
schools in Connecticut and New York City including the well known Amistad
Academy.
Although
charter school companies like Jumoke
Academy and Achievement First, Inc. have been unwilling to take their fair share of students who face language barriers and children who have special education needs, Malloy and Pryor have been diverting millions of dollars away from public
schools to finance
charter school operations.
Comer, who serves as the Chief Operations Officer of FUSE / Jumoke Inc., the
charter school management
company that owns the Jumoke
Academy and the Jumoke
Academy at Milner was nominated by Malloy to fill a spot on the State Board that oversees and approves Connecticut's
charter schools, along with setting policy for Connecticut's public education system.
One of the more noteworthy controversies surrounding
charter schools occurred here in Connecticut when Jumoke
Academy came under investigation for misuse of public funds and it was revealed that the
company's CEO didn't have the academic degree he claimed but was living the high - life in a brownstone purchased and renovated by the
charter school company.
Days before Kamalani
Academy opened in August, the new Wahiawa
charter school was scrambling — to train teachers, to find a vendor to provide
school lunches, to figure out how to get enough electricity to operate until the power
company could install a new transformer.
Before setting up his own
company, he served as a Vice President of National Heritage
Academies, a for - profit
charter chain that owns and operates 75
charter schools in nine states, making it the third largest for - profit
charter school company in the United States.
A publicly traded
company whose CEO earned $ 4 million in total compensation for 2014, K12, Inc., backs virtual
charter schools across the country, including California - based CAVA (California Virtual
Academy).
In October 2012, the Jumoke
Academy's CEO, Michael Sharpe, named her to the post of Chief Operating Officer for FUSE (Family Urban
Schools of Excellence), the new charter school management company that Jumoke created to expand and «replicate» its s
Schools of Excellence), the new
charter school management
company that Jumoke created to expand and «replicate» its
schoolsschools.
Andrea Comer, who serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Jumoke
Academy / FUSE
charter school management
company is one of Malloy's appointees to the State Board of Education.
«In recent years, Connecticut taxpayers have paid Jumoke
Academy / FUSE
charter school management
company, and their disgraced CEO Michael Sharpe, in excess of $ 53 million dollars.
Comer, who works as the Chief Operations Officer for the FUSE / Jumoke
Academy charter school management
company, and previously worked for Commissioner Stefan Pryor's Achievement First, Inc, one of the nation's largest
charter school management
companies, will be filling the State Board of Education seat that was most recently held by an official from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.
What is clear is that FUSE Inc is the
charter school management
company that Jumoke
Academy set up to divert tens of millions of public dollars away from Connecticut's public
schools and into its coffers.
Malloy and Jumoke
Academy's CEO, Michael Sharpe, would have us believe that it is the $ 345,000 annual contract to hire the FUSE / Jumoke
Academy charter school management company that is responsible for «turning around» the Milner Sch
school management
company that is responsible for «turning around» the Milner
SchoolSchool...
Petry is infamous for his relationship with Eva Moskowitz's Success
Academy charter school chain and his role in getting her
company off the ground and supporting it through the years.
Comer is the Chief Operations Officer of the Jumoke
Academy / FUSE
charter school management
company, an entity that has been swamped by the recent revelations about its CEO Michael Sharpe.
Just last year Connecticut witnessed the collapse of the FUSE / Jumoke
Academy charter school chain as a result of revelations that the
company's CEO «Dr.» Michael Sharpe didn't actually have the academic credentials he claimed and, to boot, had been convicted of embezzling public funds when he was working in California.
National Heritage
Academies is a network of
charter schools under the management of a single
company.
readers learned in a recent post entitled Malloy nominates
charter school corporate officer to Connecticut State Board of Education, Andrea Comer worked for Charter School Management company, Achievement First, Inc., a company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke Academy i
charter school corporate officer to Connecticut State Board of Education, Andrea Comer worked for Charter School Management company, Achievement First, Inc., a company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke Academy in
school corporate officer to Connecticut State Board of Education, Andrea Comer worked for
Charter School Management company, Achievement First, Inc., a company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke Academy i
Charter School Management company, Achievement First, Inc., a company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke Academy in
School Management
company, Achievement First, Inc., a
company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke
Academy in 2012.
Low - income kids and their families are the biggest losers in the attacks on public
schools, but there are winners in the ideological assault: new for - profit
companies that run
charter schools, private and religious
academies that now receive taxpayer funding and sketchy online institutions that are raking in state dollars.
Amistad
Academy, a New Haven high
school run by the
charter management
company, Achievement First, loses 51 % of their students between 9th and 12th grade.
Certain
companies and
school networks, such as the aforementioned Teach for America, Success
Academy Charter Schools and Uncommon
Schools, provide educationally - interested graduates with the opportunity to work in the classroom just months after graduation, instead of requiring their new teachers to take a year of teacher preparation courses before entering the classroom.
About the controversy surrounding Comer, who serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Jumoke
Academy and FUSE
charter school management
company, the Stamford Advocate wrote, «Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has appointed Comer to the board — raising eyebrows and questions about a conflict of interest.
Pryor and the State Board returned, once again, to one of their favorite
charter school management companies by handing the local Bridgeport public school over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence, the company that runs Jumoke Academy Charter School in Ha
charter school management companies by handing the local Bridgeport public school over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence, the company that runs Jumoke Academy Charter School in Har
school management
companies by handing the local Bridgeport public
school over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence, the company that runs Jumoke Academy Charter School in Har
school over to Hartford's Family Urban
Schools of Excellence, the
company that runs Jumoke
Academy Charter School in Ha
Charter School in Har
School in Hartford.
Pitbull's
school will be run by non-profit Mater
Academy, which has several Miami - area
charter schools, and Academica, a large national
charter school management
company.
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School; Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.; House Dress; International Leadership
Charter High
School; It's a Wrap Carting, Inc.; McKinsey &
Company; New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene; New York University Langone; Lloyd's America, Inc.; Moxie Productions; O, The Oprah Magazine; Phibro Animal Health Corporation; Possible Productions; Pratt Institute; Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP; Trading
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