Sentences with phrase «charter company operating»

Sentosa Fishing Charters, the premier reef fishing charter company operating out of the Kimberley's most exotic town, Broome in Western Australia.

That's probably why the two virtual charter companies operating in North Carolina convinced the State Board of Education to approve a policy allowing the schools to avoid recording daily attendance or reporting it to the state.

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Rather, they sought authorization to operate Gemini as a chartered LLC trust company.

He owns a residential construction company and runs Montauk Fishing Safaris, a sportfishing charter boat company that operates out of Montauk and Sag Harbor.

Previously, he operated a residential construction company and charter fishing business.

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.

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

In less than four years, White Hat Ventures LLC, the company Mr. Brennan founded to operate charter schools, has become Ohio's largest for - profit education management company.

Edison spent a disastrous two years as a public company and now operates 31 charter schools and provides management services to 54 district schools.

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 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, California.

Despite lower operating costs, the online companies collect nearly as much taxpayer money in some states as brick - and - mortar charter schools.

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 School.

While for - profit companies such as Edison Schools Inc. operate charter schools in many states, the Washington law was drafted to exclude them.

Detroit has the largest share of students enrolled in charters out of any U.S. city besides New Orleans, and for - profit companies operate 80 percent of charters in Michigan.

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.

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.»

Should a parent company operate its charter school network as a single entity, as MPS does with its 11 California charters?

For example, Van Gureghian, who was Gov. Corbett's single largest campaign donor, owns a company that operates 150 charter schools in nine states (Ramey, 2010).

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.

One big fear of critics is that Bennett will allow for - profit companies to begin operating charter schools in Madison.

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.

While leaving Connecticut's real public schools without sufficient funds, Malloy and Democratic legislators approved a deal to divert more than $ 100 million dollars this year to the companies that operate Connecticut's charter schools.

The charter schools we selected for analysis are part of the Alliance College Ready Public Schools (Alliance), a nonprofit company that operates 26 charter middle schools and high schools, all of them part of LAUSD, and most of them located in south - central Los Angeles.

It's of import to Cobey because K12, of course, is one of two companies operating similar, publicly - funded virtual charters in North Carolina, both of which experienced soaring dropout rates this year in their first eight months of operation while taking in more than $ 14 million in state funds this year.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

Both Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are big supporters of charter schools, publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and of voucher / voucher - like programs, which use public funds for tuition and educational expenses at private and religious schools.

Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside traditional public districts, and many are run by for - profit companies.

The book also pays special attention to the role of private management companies, which operate nearly three - fourths of the state's charter schools.

Fitzsimon says «two online charter schools opened in the state this fall, operated by two different for - profit companies, one of which, K12 Inc., has a scandal - plagued record in other states,» and that «last week brought maybe the most compelling evidence of all that the General Assembly made a terrible decision in ordering the state board to approve the schools.

Although most of the schools operated by Charter Schools USA are located in Florida, the company also manages schools in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, and North Carolina.

Of the 11 charters approved for 2016, six are operated by for - profit EMOs originating outside the state, including CSUSA, Accelerated Learning Solutions (another Florida - based company), and two new charters operated by National Heritage Academies, a Michigan - based for - profit EMO that already operates 11 charters in the state.

It is aligned with the Imagine Schools Corp., an education management company that operates 74 charter schools in 12 states and the District of Columbia.

• The second option is to remove the York City School District from the control of a locally - elected school board and to hand the entire school district over to a charter school operating company.

Cunningham said Athlos» lease arrangement is one example of the loopholes used by charter management companies, allowing private interests to operate public schools outside the intentions of state law.

In his capacity as Chief Operating Officer of Doral College, Diaz has benefited personally to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars as charter schools owned by the for - profit company Academica pay his private, unaccredited college — also Academica - affiliated — for college courses that are not transferable to any other school.

«Two other charter schools received F's as their first - ever grades in 2013, only to climb all the way to B's this year... Renaissance Charter School at Chickasaw Trail, in Orlando, is operated by Charter Schools USA, one of the largest charter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout thecharter schools received F's as their first - ever grades in 2013, only to climb all the way to B's this year... Renaissance Charter School at Chickasaw Trail, in Orlando, is operated by Charter Schools USA, one of the largest charter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout theCharter School at Chickasaw Trail, in Orlando, is operated by Charter Schools USA, one of the largest charter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout theCharter Schools USA, one of the largest charter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout thecharter school management organizations in the state... This year, the company saw improvement throughout the state.

The idea was that this private charter company could do a better job operating a public school.

«The fact is that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy should never have put Andrea Comer, the Chief Operating Officer of the Jumoke / FUSE charter school management company, on the State Board of Education in the first place.

As noted, Comer served as Chief Operating Officer of the disgraced Jumoke / FUSE charter school chain but quit both her job and her position on the State Board of Education when the charter school company became the target of the investigation into financial wrongdoing.

Achievement First, Inc. is the large charter school management company that owns and operates charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

Toll is the CEO of Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company that owns and operates charter schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

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.

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 schools.

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.

• Publicly funded charters, including those operated by management companies, must comply with Freedom of Information laws.