Sentences with phrase «based charter school company»

TAMPA - A Florida - based charter school company has applied to open a kindergarten - through - eighth grade charter school on MacDill Air Force Base that would accommodate nearly 900 students...

But not to be outdone, Commissioner Stefan Pryor and his aides refocused their Clark Elementary School privatization effort, this time looking to hand the Hartford Public School over to a Washington D.C. based charter school company known as Friendship Charter Schools.

Not exact matches

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.

After their first Tucson charter school was ranked the nation's sixth - best high school by Newsweek, the Blocks went on to found BASIS.ed, a management company that operates 12 BASIS Schools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, CaliSchools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, Calischools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, California.

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Charter Schools USA, a Florida - based private school management company, will run the school next year — and the Indiana Board of Education grappled with how to fund it at its Wednesday meeting.

Imagine Southeast opened in 2008, a school run by an Arlington - based for - profit company that manages charters in a dozen states.

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.

Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education originally approved the Booker T. Washington Charter School based on the fact that it would be run by Jumoke / FUSE, but after the collapse of that company, the proponents of the Booker T. Washington School were allowed to find a new «management» operation.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

And the out - of - state company that plans to replicate its Bronx based charter school in Stamford must be equally as happy.

ConnCAN, known to us as the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company, that was set up by Stefan Pryor and friends, beat out every other «education reform» group in the country, do to their ability to consistently misrepresent the facts on the most constant basis.

K12, Inc., a Virginia - based for - profit company that runs online schools in 32 states and attributes nearly 85 percent of its income to public dollars, has been trying to make its way into North Carolina to open a virtual charter school.

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.

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.

In response to this development, Commissioner Pryor, his senior staff, and high - ranking administrators for the Hartford School System decided that the new «choice» would be Friendship Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. based charter school management coSchool System decided that the new «choice» would be Friendship Charter Schools, a Washington D.C. based charter school management cCharter Schools, a Washington D.C. based charter school management ccharter school management coschool management company.

Sources close to Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor report that the Charter School loving Commissioner of Education has committed to give Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in WashingtoCharter School loving Commissioner of Education has committed to give Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in WashingtonSchool loving Commissioner of Education has committed to give Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in WashingtonSchool to Friendship Charter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in WashingtoCharter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in Washingtocharter school management company based in Washingtonschool management company based in Washington, D.C.

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).

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizCharter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizcharter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

Meanwhile, Luke Bronin's spokesperson's New York based company received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the charter school industry for coordinating the lobbying campaign on behalf of the charter schools, a proposal that diverted Connecticut taxpayer money that should have been spent on public schools.

readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purSchool to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in purschool management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

It will be a new kindergarten through eighth - grade school run by Fort Lauderdale - based Charter Schools USA, a for - profit management company that operates another 47 charters in the state and has five new schools opening thiSchools USA, a for - profit management company that operates another 47 charters in the state and has five new schools opening thischools opening this fall.

Earlier this year, in a deal between Paul Vallas and Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, the Bridgeport's Dunbar elementary school was handed over to a charter school management company based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Typically, they are not community - based but are run by charter school management companies, backed by hedge fund groups and other powerful sectors of American society.