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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.

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.

Last week, the General Assembly approved legislation that allows private, for - profit charter school management companies to keep their employees» salaries secret, even though they are paid with public funds.

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 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.

If you've got a charter school management company and you'd like to run the chaotic, broke school district of Muskegon Heights, today is your last day to submit a bid.

Flanagan told a state panel last week it's not clear if the Muskegon Heights school district, or the for - profit charter company that ran it the last two years, will face any consequences for running up a deficit big enough to require an emergency loan worth $ 1.4 million and two cash advances to keep schools open through June.

At a back - to - school picnic last month, educators with Charter Schools USA told StateImpact they expected enrollment to increase after the community saw what the company was doing to transform the takeover sSchools USA told StateImpact they expected enrollment to increase after the community saw what the company was doing to transform the takeover schoolsschools.

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.

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.

As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for «out - migrating» or «dumping» any students that don't fit their «exacting» standards.

While the Legislature continues to be woefully behind on providing funding to keep up with rising costs across the last decade, HB7055, in a sudden show of largesse, will alter the PECO funding structure so that well over 3,000 traditional schools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thisschools must split $ 50 million dollars while 650 charter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thischarter schools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thisschools, many of which are managed by for - profit companies such as Academica, Charter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thisCharter Schools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thisSchools USA, and Charter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled thisCharter School Associates, will receive over $ 120 million and in future years will be chained to CPI (why has not all education funding handled this way?).

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.

Bridgeport's Democratic Primary to select Board of Education candidates will be held tomorrow and campaign finance reports filed last week reveal that Achievement First Inc., the charter school management company co-founded by Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, continues to play a dominant role in the effort to control Bridgeport's public education system.

Together, the two companies received at least $ 6.9 million from charter schools last year, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of charter - school expense reports.

Last week Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Christina Kishimoto, announced plans that she wants to close Hartford's Clark School and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of EducSchool and hand the building over to Achievement First, Inc., the larger charter school management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Educschool management company that already has one school in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Educschool in Hartford but was promised another by Mayor Pedro Segarra and the majority on the Hartford Board of Education.

Over the last few day's I've laid out the irrefutable evidence that the guiding hands that created and manage Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, are the same hands that created and coordinate the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc (ConnCAN) and the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Advocacy, Inc (the entity that paid more than half a million dollars to lobby for Achievement First and ConnCAN's agenda).

Meanwhile, Perry has spent the last few years trying to persuade Hartford officials to hand over existing public schools to a private charter school management company that Perry set up while serving as a public school principal.

In another attempt to account for the funding shortfall, Michigan's Republican lawmakers proposed last month legislation that would expand charter schools and privatize teacher hirings by employing from for - profit companies.

Public funding for charter schools skyrocketed as a result of Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor's policies over the last three years, with Pryor's charter school management company receiving the lions» share of the money.

At last night's New Haven Board of Education meeting, New Haven Board of Education President Carlos Torre and member Alicia Caraballo, «peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared themselves unprepared to vote yet» on the plan to divert even more New Haven and Connecticut taxpayer funds to Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company with operations in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

The Greenwich cable company executive is not only a major funder of the charter school industry, but just last week he co-hosted a fundraiser for none - other - than Education Reform Groupie Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch.

Just last year Connecticut witnessed the collapse of the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school chain as a result of revelations that the company's CEO «Dr.» Michael Sharpe didn't actually have the academic credentials he claimed and, to boot, had been convicted of embezzling public funds when he was working in California.

Last night, the CEO of ConnCAN, the advocacy organization that was formed by Achievement First (the large charter school management company with 20 schools in Connecticut and New York), was the loudest critic of the Education Committee's work to reduce some of the damage that would have been caused by Governor Malloy's «Education Reform» bill.

And if as if that wasn't enough, Perry and his eight fellow Capital Prep Magnet School employees must still face the issue of how there were able to spend the last two years working to develop Perry's charter school company when, in fact, they were employed as full - time employees of the Hartford Board of EducSchool employees must still face the issue of how there were able to spend the last two years working to develop Perry's charter school company when, in fact, they were employed as full - time employees of the Hartford Board of Educschool company when, in fact, they were employed as full - time employees of the Hartford Board of Education.