Sentences with phrase «charter school management company»

Prior to working for FUSE / Jumoke, Inc. she worked for Achievement First, Inc., the even larger charter school management company co-founded by Stefan Pryor.

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

Jonathan Sackler, whose pharmaceutical company makes OxyContin, is a founding member of Achievement First, Inc., the large Charter School Management Company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

KIPP is the largest charter school management company in the nation with at least 133 schools and rumor has it that we'll see be seeing them here in Connecticut in the months to come.

The ASD superintendent would be able to fire all teachers and staff and enter into five year contracts with private charter school management companies to handle the schools» operations, all in a bid to catapult low performing schools from the bottom five percent up into the top echelon of the state's high performing schools.

The timing of this hand - out to another Achievement First Inc. employee is particularly noteworthy since it takes place at the very moment that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and Commissioner Pryor are circling the wagons in an attempt to deny any responsibility for the Jumoke Academy / FUSE Charter School Management Company debacle of the past few weeks.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

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 Washington, D.C.

Listen carefully and you may hear that sound of charter school management company executives rubbing their hands together in anticipation of tomorrow's Connecticut State Board of Education meeting.

Taking a leaf from Stefan Pryor's own charter school management company, Achievement First (English for Separate Will Always Be Unequal), I will institute daily shaming sessions, no heads on desks, eyes always on the teacher while I click, click, click the students into a dull stupor.

Flush with public funds, this private non-profit corporation has even started a new charter school management company called FUSE, Inc..

This is Part 1 of a series about Steve Perry and his ongoing effort to get public officials to help him build a financially lucrative charter school management company with taxpayer funds.

Tribune looks at charter school management companies in Utah.

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.

As importantly, Comer's position as the COO of a major charter school management company surrounds her with what can only be called a perceived conflict of interest.

The organization not only lobbies for more charter schools but helps private charter school management companies develop applications to get public funds.

«CPS [Capital Preparatory Schools Inc. which is Perry's private charter school management company] is designed to be a fiscally fit «boutique» charter management organization («CMO»)....

The provision in the technical corrections bill, if adopted, could make it easier for national for - profit charter school management companies like National Heritage Academies (NHA) or Charter Schools USA to also have greater influence on individual charter schools in North Carolina — a move that coincides with an interest by some lawmakers to dramatically increase the presence of national for - profit operators in the state.

Pitbull's school will be run by non-profit Mater Academy, which has several Miami - area charter schools, and Academica, a large national charter school management company.

In only five years, SDP has grown from having a handful of partners to 56 worldwide as more and more districts, agencies, nonprofits, and charter school management companies report meaningful results in their local schools thanks to the partnership.

The schools run by Academica, Florida's oldest charter school management company, use public funds to pay Doral College to provide unaccredited college coursework.

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 handy.

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.

has been among the most vocal supporters of Steve Perry, the would - be charter school management company operator who is relying on Governor Malloy to force the Connecticut General Assembly to fund Perry's plan to open a privately owned, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport.

Like many charter school management companies, the Friendship Charter Schools Board of Directors is made up of corporate education reform industry executives and their allies.

Just a few blocks away on Vine Street, the Milner School, which had been shut down, redesigned, and re-opened previously, was given over to a different charter school management company in 2012.

Achievement First, Inc., the very charter school management company that Stefan Pryor helped to create and lead for the eight years before he became Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

Pryor and the State Board returned, once again, to one of their favorite charter school management companies by handing the local Bridgeport public school over to Hartford's Family Urban Schools of Excellence, the company that runs Jumoke Academy Charter School in Hartford.

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.

CSUSA, the first education management company to receive district accreditation through AdvancED is one of the nation's leading charter school management companies.

In the «small world» department, one the NewSchools Venture Fund Board members includes none - other - than Jonathan Sackler, who played a vital role in the creation of Commissioner Stefan Pryor's Achievement First charter school management company and is responsible for the creation of ConnCAN and 50 CAN.

On a smaller scale, Charter Schools USA, one of the largest for - profit charter school management companies in the nation, gave Rhee's group $ 5,000 last year after honoring her as a «New American Hero,» a spokeswoman for the outfit said.

However, rather than conduct a truly independent investigation into the fall of the Jumoke / FUSE charter school management company, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education and his political appointees on the State Board of Education decided to hire a lawyer to conduct an «investigation.»