Sentences with phrase «charter school management companies report»

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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.»

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.

In her report, Wang finds the four charter schools Mitchell was instrumental in creating all hired the same for - profit management company, Roger Bacon Academies, which is also owned by Mitchell.

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

As the Charlotte Observer reports, in the first four years after the state's cap on charters was lifted, «the number of North Carolina charter schools run by a for - profit management company... more than doubled, from eight to 17.»

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.

She points me to a recent investigative report by the Detroit Free Press that finds, «It is difficult to know how charter management companies are spending money... Unlike traditional school districts, the management companies usually don't disclose their vendors, contracts, and competitive bid documents.»

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.

Among the more curious expenditures listed in the reports filed this month with the State Ethics Commission by Families for Excellent Schools / Coalition for Every Child was a payment of just over $ 2,000 to the charter school management company Achievement First, Inc..

The city's 90 charter schools are run by a host of education management companies and organizations that report to charter school boards and are overseen by 11 different colleges, universities, and school districts.

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.

This report finds the seven largest charter operators, who all contract with educational management companies, have per pupil administrative costs that are $ 406 higher than the overall average for charter schools.