Sentences with phrase «of charter school company»

Is it a conflict of interest for the COO of a charter school company to sit on the State Board of Education where she will vote on a variety of measures that will directly help Jumoke and other charter schools in the state?

The ethics commission of Connecticut was very happy to answer newly appointed Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor's question as to whether his previous association with and founding of a charter school company would constitute a conflict of interest.

Watch the bouncing ball... as the Corporate Education Reform Industry, Families for Excellent Schools, the Coalition for Every Child, Governor Malloy's former press secretary Andrew Doba, Achievement First Inc. and the other charter school lobby groups try to divert even more public funds away from Connecticut's public schools and into the coffers of charter school companies...

Not exact matches

Note the average teacher salary is not available for most charter schools because staff are employed by a charter - school management company and fall into the category of contract employees.

Charter schools don't mean the privatization of education by evil companies: it's an answer to doing anything to fix this broken system.

Marcellino had repeatedly voted to drain public schools of tens of millions and ship to the charter school companies that fund the GOP campaigns.

Cuomo has been adept at raising millions of dollars from interests whose businesses are impacted by Albany actions — labor unions, real estate developers, business executives, the health care industry, charter school backers, government contractors, and the film and TV companies that get tax breaks for filming in New York.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain, associate editor of the Times Union about a charter school proposal that would allow uncredited teachers to work, and a push to sue pharmaceutical companies that produce opioids.

All of them have received pay or political contributions from the charter school movement and / or testing companies and all of them have wholly endorsed more charter schools.

Forcina, a former Marine who worked at a software company prior to becoming an attorney, said his top campaign priorities are elder care, writing laws that will aid small businesses in northeast Queens, lowering taxes and supporting the creation of charter schools in his district.

Many of those companies and individuals have business before the Cuomo administration — and they aren't just interests like those of charter school supporters that have a clear policy alignment.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

WHEREAS Wall Street financier and private equity fund manager Steven Klinsky is the founder of Victory Education Partners, Inc., a privately held, for - profit educational management company that manages charter schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois; and

In Ohio, where online charter schools have been authorized since the early 2000s, a variety of providers can operate online charter schools, including school districts, non-profits, and private for - profit companies.

This would facilitate the establishment of both individualized charter schools and multiple private companies with powerful education brand names.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

According to the Center for Education Reform, 19 of these companies ran 350 charter schools in 2001 -» 02, about 14 percent of the nation's charter schools.

The vast majority of EP alumni work for other education organizations, including high - performing charter school networks and education nonprofits, state and federal agencies that allocate billions of dollars across the sector and impact millions of children, education policy and advocacy organizations, and ed tech companies.

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.

c. Should states allow for - profit companies to manage the operation of charter schools?

He has also served on the board of the California Charter Schools Association, the KIPP Foundation and ed tech company DreamBox Learning, according to Education Next.

If employees of charter schools or any outside management companies that run them serve on the schools» boards of directors, they must avoid any «real or apparent conflict of interest» if the school receives money from the Department of Education's charter school program, under new guidelines released late last month.

In spring 2006, Maryland state superintendent of public instruction Nancy Grasmick sought to take over 11 chronically low - performing Baltimore schools that were subject to restructuring and convert them to charters or contract their management with private companies.

From its headquarters here in Mr. Brennan's hometown, the privately held company runs roughly a sixth of the state's 91 charter schools and spends about $ 30...

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new school districts, or independent schools with a new twist.

The same Bill Gates whose company was prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein has given Chancellor Klein at least $ 70 million for creating hundreds of new small high schools and charter schools.

The spate of troubles leaves the company's 37 preschools, private schools, and public charter schools, which serve some 8,000 students, facing...

Meanwhile, a company such as Edison Schools or a nonprofit such as KIPP applies for a charter to run a replacement school out of that very facility.

He's on the board of the California Charter Schools Association; the KIPP Foundation; DreamBox Learning, an education technology company; and the Pahara Institute, which provides fellowships to education leaders.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

The paper reported that «charter schools have become a parallel school system unto themselves, a system controlled largely by for - profit management companies and private landlords — one and the same, in many cases — and rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest.»

The role of charter alternative schools like Sunshine — publicly funded but managed by for - profit companies — is likely to grow under the new U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, an ardent supporter of school choice.

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

«I can't even begin to say we have this all figured out,» she said while giving ProPublica a tour of Aloma High, another charter school the company runs in Orange County.

The new staff members included Ferrero; James Shelton, a McKinsey consultant, MBA, and former president of Learn Now, a charter - school management company; former Clinton administration official David Lane; and Stefanie Sanford, a White House fellow and former senior staffer to Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

In 2006, in Dallas, a construction company sued a charter school, alleging that the school stiffed workers on a building contract to the tune of a couple hundred thousand dollars.

Over the past 18 months, Stefan Pryor, Malloy's Commissioner of Education, co-founder of Achievement First, Inc. (the large charter school Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance Distschool Management Company) and corporate education reform aficionado, has moved out all the professional expertise from the State Department of Education's office that is responsible for what used to be called Priority School Districts but are now called Alliance DistSchool Districts but are now called Alliance Districts.

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A NECSN Preferred Vendor is part of an elite group of companies that have geared some or all of their services to benefit NECSN member 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 Washington Roundtable, an organization made up of top executives from many of the state's largest companies, supports charter schools, arguing it's another means to help students, particularly low - income minorities, in an age of increasing expectations.

(Amistad and Achievement First, of course, being the charter school and charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor).

The Grand Canyon Institute's comprehensive financial analysis found that charter schools were rampant with related - party transactions, a practice where charter school operators did business with for - profit companies owned by the charter holder, members of the school's corporate board or relatives of either.

Indianapolis parents say they're finally hearing some of the answers they've been seeking about what activities the charter school company taking over Emmerich Manual High School next year will school company taking over Emmerich Manual High School next year will School next year will offer.

Bronin's donor list actually includes many of the top board members and sponsors behind the various charter school companies and education reform groups in Connecticut.

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