Charter companies often require a sizeable down payment, and aren't amenable to trip or route changes.
Not exact matches
Privately - held
companies are
often more difficult to research, but every corporation has to be
chartered in a particular state and the filings of state corporation records are public documents.
These providers can either be nonprofit organizations (
often referred to as
charter management organizations [CMOs]-RRB- or for - profit
companies (known as educational management organizations [EMOs]-RRB-.
Charter schools
often hire
companies to handle their accounting and management functions.
Here are a few examples: the for - profit
company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the
company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit
company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is
often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of
Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.
However, the distinction between for - profit and nonprofit is
often messier than groups like NAPCS readily admit: Nonprofit
charters can still hire for - profit management
companies to run their schools.
Further, the NOLA system means that if you don't like your child's school you're less likely to have a way to do something about it, because the
charters are
often run by private boards and management
companies, many of which aren't based in New Orleans or even based in Louisiana.
This idea has been embraced by the Obama and Malloy administrations, pushing «turnaounds» in which the administration and most or all of the staff of a school with low test scores is replaced —
often by a
charter school management
company.
• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management
companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management
companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... •
Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they ove
Charter schools
often rely on loans from management
companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making
charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they ove
charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...
In addition, the boards at these subsidiary for - profit
companies are
often the same individuals that are on the
charter» scorporate board.
Gaming the system is
often done through contractual transactions with subsidiary for profit
companies owned by the
charter school holder and overseen by the same corporate board as the nonprofit
charter school.
She calls for expanding
charter schools, which are publicly funded but
often run by private
companies.
It
often makes sense to sue not only the owner of the cruise ship, but the
company that
chartered the cruise ship, the
company that operated the cruise ship and even the
company that sold you your ticket.
Companies are
often keen for technical sales staff to gain membership of a relevant professional engineering body, although achieving
chartered engineer status (CEng) is less common in technical sales than in other engineering disciplines.