Sentences with phrase «by charter school companies»

Republican Peggy Lehner «expects to be [so] flooded in the coming week with interested people who have been hired by charter school companies and groups that she has jokingly called the reform bill the «full employment act» for lobbyists.

The process allowed the charter school company to take over hiring decisions but maintained employees as union members and any teacher not chosen by the charter school company was guaranteed a job at another district school.

The announcement came during the last week of school for Jefferson students, as the district begins its transition to become the first in the state run by a charter school company.

Under Florida House rules, his employment by a charter school company while also pushing for laws beneficial to charter schools is not a conflict of interest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The school is operated by the Leona Group, a public charter school company.

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 roadblocks are especially severe when virtual schools also tie in with other controversial reforms, such as charter schools, contracting out to private management companies, and the interdistrict competition for students generated by open enrollment.

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.

The for - profit companies that operate some charter and online schools take the idea a step further by arguing that private business models are more efficient than public school systems.

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.

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).

Last school year, 137 students assigned to Olympia's attendance zone instead attended Sunshine High, a charter alternative school run by a for - profit company.

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.

The school's charter holder had created numerous self - dealing operations (all legal under Arizona state charter school law) where the school contracted directly with private companies owned and operated by himself and his wife.

Both schools would operated by Charter Schools USA, the company the state has contracted to take over Emmerich Manual and T.C. Howe High Schools and Emma Donnan Middle schools would operated by Charter Schools USA, the company the state has contracted to take over Emmerich Manual and T.C. Howe High Schools and Emma Donnan Middle Schools USA, the company the state has contracted to take over Emmerich Manual and T.C. Howe High Schools and Emma Donnan Middle Schools and Emma Donnan Middle School.

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.

(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.

Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school opeschool company that was co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, is continuing its campaign to get the Hartford Board of Education to close the Clark Elementary School and hand it over to the charter school opeSchool and hand it over to the charter school opeschool operator.

A person can start a purportedly nonprofit charter school and then have that charter purchase all of its services and supplies from a company owned by that same person.

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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.

In a prior version of SB 793, the bill simply required charter schools to publicly disclose all employees» salaries, without making note of whether or not they were employed by the for - profit management company.

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

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tCharter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tcharter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

The WBD movie is produced by the same company that produced the controversial documentary «Waiting for Superman,» which put teachers in a very bad light and presented false and misleading information about charter schools, which overall have not had any better track record in the US than regular schools.

SBX54 was written by the Los Angeles Parents Union (LAPU), started in 2006 by the Green Dot charter school company.

Public education in Philadelphia is a mixture of district - run schools, schools operated by private management companies and charter schools, which are public but operate independently from the district.

A formal investigation by the Florida State's Attorney into allegations of grade tampering at a charter school managed by Newpoint Education Partners has resulted in criminal charges handed down just this week — just as the charter school management company had hoped to nose its way into doing business in North Carolina.

Achievement First, Inc, of course, is the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

But upon learning of allegations and charges of academic fraud and other abuses at charter schools in Florida that are managed by Newpoint Education Partners — a company that hopes to open two charter schools in Wake and New Hanover counties — the Board indicated Wednesday that they are likely to temporarily put the brakes on allowing that charter management company to do business in North Carolina, a decision that will be determined in a final vote Thursday.

Achievement First, of course, being the charter school management company founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

None of the options school choice advocates promote — charter schools, voucher supported private schools, online schools operated by private companies — are part of a truly public school system.

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

It prohibits financial enrichment by charter school owners and managers and their associated real estate companies.

The Sarasota school board will vote today on a proposed Pinecrest charter run by the for - profit management company Academica.

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.

According to an analysis of 2015 - 16 federal survey data by Politico and the nonprofit newsroom The Investigative Fund, «Seven of the 10 school systems statewide that used the most restraints and seclusions per special education student were charter school companies in New Orleans.»

The ASD's superintendent (chosen by a search committee headed up by the Lieutenant Governor, who is a vocal critic of public education) would be in charge of recommending to the State Board of Education which charter management company should run the schools.

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.

readers now appreciate, Connecticut's charter schools, and especially Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, actively allow, if not promote segregation.

Then, we call in the Charter Schools created by a company founded by none other than Stefan Pryor, State Commissioner of Education, (no kick - backs there!)

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