In his recent CT Newsjunkie commentary piece entitled, Show Me The (
Charter Management Fee) Money!
No clear answer was given about how the «
charter management fee» is spent, though 10 % of «per pupil revenue» was said to go to Achievement First with some being used for Principal training.
A few years ago, I wrote in ctnewsjunkie.com about
charter management fees charged by private companies that manage charter schools in Connecticut.
A new report from CEA, the state's largest teachers union, (prepared by Rodriguez Data Solutions, LLC) shows that
these charter management fees are growing at a higher rate than overall State spending on charter schools in Connecticut.
Not exact matches
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charter and the committee's performance.
Not only does Mitchell operate four
charter schools in North Carolina that has enabled him to personally take in 16 million taxpayer dollars in
management fees over the past several years, he is also deeply involved in
charter school politics at the state level.
The State Board of Education is mulling the idea of capping
fees for
charter management companies at 10 %.
As for the scope of
management fees that he intends to collect, Perry's New York
charter school application boasts,
He recently created a
management company to open
charter schools at a hefty
fee.
While Lavin did not explain his reasoning for insisting on the breakup, in a June 27 letter to MPS, Jose Cole - Gutierrez, head of LA Unified's
Charter School Division, said the overlap of services provided by MPS and Accord «raises the question of the purpose of (MPS) and the
management fees it receives from the schools when it appears that Accord is providing wholesale operations to the school.»
Although no state funding has been allocated for the Capital Harbor
Charter School in Bridgeport and the state of Connecticut is facing a $ 1.4 billion budget deficit in next year's state budget, Perry's New York application makes it clear that he is expecting Malloy to cough up millions of dollars so he can open his Bridgeport operation and collect his
management fees.
They only get «rescued» when they turn them over to a
charter management company who require a hefty
fee and a fleet of overpaid «leaders»... OR:
In fact, the
charter management organization that runs the school, New Orleans College Prep (NOCP), offered a $ 10,000 referral
fee for anyone who came up with a successful candidate.
Its report found
charters paying exorbitant
fees to
management companies and that many of the highest rents were paid to landlords with ties to the
management companies running the schools.
Not all
charter schools in Connecticut charge pay
management fees.
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.
In fact, most
charter schools do not pay
management fees, so the report looks closely on the handful that do: Achievement First, Domus, Great Oaks, and Our Piece of the Pie.
The total
management fees added up to millions in state dollars diverted from
charter schools to these
management companies.
The
charter management schools charge
fees at
charter schools in the cities that serve mostly Black and some Latinx students.
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Williams urged, «Please consider what message your action today will send to the
charter schools that do play by the rules, and spend their money on their students instead of huge
management fees.»
Roughly 10 percent of a
charter school's budget can go toward
management fees.
For example, the New Haven - based CMO called Achievement First charged Achievement First - Hartford
Charter School a $ 1.14 million
management fee in 2013 - 14.
The Bronx
Charter School for Excellence needs to come up with an extra $ 500,000 a year to pay off its bond holders in New York and since charter school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in
Charter School for Excellence needs to come up with an extra $ 500,000 a year to pay off its bond holders in New York and since
charter school management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in
charter school
management companies can skim off 10 % of a Connecticut
charter school's revenue by way of a «management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in
charter school's revenue by way of a «
management fee,» the Connecticut taxpayer money Malloy wants to hand over will certainly come in handy.
In 2012, Milner school was selected by the Commissioner of Education for a second «turnaround» under the
management of a private
charter company, Jumoke / FUSE, which would be paid a
management fee of around $ 350,000 a year.
In this sense, privatization really is corporatization because the CMO lends its name and
management expertise to a particular
charter school for a sizeable
fee.
For a number of
charter schools, roughly 10 percent of all of public dollars meant for educating children in these schools go to pay
fees for private companies called «
charter management organizations.»
Not only does Jumoke Academy collect millions of taxpayer dollars as a result of their Hartford - based
charter school, but they are now collecting a state - funded
management fee of $ 345,000 a year to run «The Jumoke Academy at Milner,» the former Hartford elementary school that was given to Jumoke as part of the Commissioner's Network.
• 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 the 2009 - 10 fiscal year, Mitchell received more than $ 3 million from the two
charter schools for
management fees and the cost of renting the buildings from another company Mitchell owns, according to publicly available copies of the
charter school's tax returns, as reported by NC Policy Watch's Sarah Ovaska.
EMOs perform similar functions to those of CMOs, but they generally charge a
management fee for their services.65 EMOs too have been instrumental in
charter sector growth.
Mitchell, who currently operates three other public
charter schools in the state, paid himself nearly $ 1.8 million in 2012 for what he characterized as «management fees» to the IRS for running Charter Day
charter schools in the state, paid himself nearly $ 1.8 million in 2012 for what he characterized as «
management fees» to the IRS for running
Charter Day
Charter Day School.
The agreements associated with the two new
charter schools allow Perry to collect
management fees of up to ten percent of the total school budgets each year.
However, the
charter school application approved by the New York Board of Regents continues to be based on Perry collecting millions of dollars in management fees from all three of «his schools,» which he lists as Hartford's Capital Prep and his proposed charter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem Charter s
charter school application approved by the New York Board of Regents continues to be based on Perry collecting millions of dollars in
management fees from all three of «his schools,» which he lists as Hartford's Capital Prep and his proposed
charter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem Charter s
charter schools in Bridgeport and Harlem
Charter s
Charter schools.
Perry's newly approved
charter grants him the ability to collect a 10 percent annual
management fee that will mean millions of dollars being transferred to his company.
But with the «green light» from Governor Malloy's administration and the New York Board of Regents, the two new
charter schools will mean that Perry and his private company will be collecting approximately $ 25 million in
management fees over the next five years.