Sentences with phrase «charter school management company]»

This is a radical repurposing of a public goal to meet the needs of private corporations, and is echoed in the mission and «vision» statements of the leading charter school management companies:

Todd is the former Chair of the Citizen Budget Review Commission for Dallas ISD ($ 1.7 billion budget educating 160,000 students) and the former Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees for Uplift Education, a public charter school management organization serving almost 15,000 students across the D / FW area.

As I believe you know, at its meeting on November 17 - 18, 2014, the New York Board of Regents, upon the recommendation of the New York Commissioner of Education and his staff, approved granting Steve Perry and his private charter school management corporation an initial charter to open the Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School in New York City.

In addition to his lucrative public - speaking business and his private charter school management company, the Hartford Board of Education employee — who misses more than 25 % of Hartford school days — has joined television Bishop T.D. Jakes in creating a new «Continuing Education Program.»

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.

For example, a 2014 Huffington Post article provocatively entitled, «Why is this Charter School Management Company Still in Business?

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.

Included in this special Capitol Update message from Jed Wallace: * Legislative efforts to address charter school management and governance * CCSA reaches agreement on charter school governance, finance and operations * Bills provide clarity, address accountability, and increase access to quality facilities * Get more information, share your feedback * State budget passed; watch for new Budget Brief

The majority of the money flows through to Hartford's two largest charter school management organizations (Jumoke and Achievement First) and even the money going to the Board of Education is restricted in such a way as to force Hartford and Connecticut taxpayers to devote even more resources to the charter school industry.

According to the official documents filed with the Connecticut and New York State Departments of Education, Perry's has stated that Capital Prep's Assistant Principal, Richard Beganski, is a key member of Perry charter school management company and will hold leadership positions at the proposed charter schools.

Just this week the Hartford Board of Education moved to sever its relationship with Jumoke / FUSE and the charter school management company's control of the Milner elementary school.

Steve Perry, the man who described himself as the, «most trusted educator in America,» is leaving his post as principal of Hartford's Capital Preparatory School in order to pursue his desire to join the charter school industry and expand upon on his plans to develop a charter school management company.

And in his initial action under the new law, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, uses his position to take over a neighborhood school in Hartford in order to hand it over to a colleague in the Charter School industry.

The proposal was called the Commissioner's Network and it had every charter school management company in the United States salivating.

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.

Considering the financial issues facing the City of Hartford and the State of Connecticut it is astonishing that the Hartford would agree to divert scarce resources to support Steve Perry's ambitions to develop a lucrative charter school management company.

About the controversy surrounding Comer, who serves as the Chief Operating Officer of the Jumoke Academy and FUSE charter school management company, the Stamford Advocate wrote, «Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has appointed Comer to the board — raising eyebrows and questions about a conflict of interest.

This clearly indicates that some type of deal has or will be struck to hand even more Hartford schools over to the Fuse / Jumoke charter school management company.

«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»)....

State Officials decided to given the Milner School to a charter school management company, and they did it, they say, because the students are so similar.

Earlier this year, in a deal between Paul Vallas and Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, the Bridgeport's Dunbar elementary school was handed over to a charter school management company based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Previously, as president of Pierre Principle Communications, Dauphin directed messaging for the University of New Orleans» College of Education and Human Development, when it became the first charter school management organization in Louisiana to assume control of a failing public school in 2004.

Charter Schools USA is one of the largest providers of charter school management services in the nation, managing private and municipal charters for grades Pre-K through 12.

But now we are told, by right wing conservatives who despise social democracy, that public education is an evil and that the best thing for the poor is to get their children into a charter school, nominally public, but typically managed by a private charter school management company (backed by Wall St money).

Kenneth Zeichner: Charter school management organizations, education entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and venture capitalists.

Charter Schools USA is one of nation's largest providers of charter school management services in the United States and a leader in the development and design of charter schools.

As more and more facts come out about Michael Sharpe, the CEO of the Jumoke / FUSE Charter School Management company, parents, public school advocates and the taxpayers of Bridgeport and Connecticut are turning their attention to the decision by Paul Vallas and former Bridgeport Board of Education, Chairman Kenneth Moales, Jr. to hand over Bridgeport's Dunbar School, its students, staff, parents and millions of dollars in public funds to the disgraced charter school fraud.

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

She serves on several boards including Editorial Projects in Education, which publishes Education Week; Uncommon Schools, a charter school management organization that oversees nearly 50 schools in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts; and the United Nations International School where she chairs the Academic Policy Committee.

HARTFORD — City and state educators said Monday that they had been served with subpoenas by a federal grand jury examining the expenditure of millions of dollars in public money by the troubled charter school management company FUSE.

Philadelphia is imploding — any day now the charter school management companies that are «losing» profits will pack up, as they do and have done in the Recovery District — , teachers are losing jobs, unemployment is soaring — and yet that Vallas Disaster is held up as a success??? We are sick of your snake oil!

Taxes going up, vital services being cut, but low and behold, public funds are flowing ever faster into Achievement First, Inc. the charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

on More public subsidies for Achievement First, Commissioner Pryor's «former» Charter School Management Company

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.

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..

Before that she worked for Uncommon Schools, a charter school management company that provided «enrichment program and supporting operations» at Brownsville Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, NY.

Readers know that Perry, who has failed to show up for his City of Hartford principal's job more than 20 percent of the time, has created his own charter school management company and is now trying to open a charter school in Bridgeport with the help of Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch and Finch's disgraced campaign treasurer and former Bridgeport Board of Education Char Reverend Kenneth Moales, Jr..

Beyond the school districts and charter school management organizations that we collaborate with through the Summit Learning Program, we also work with nonprofit organizations, universities, foundations, corporations, government organizations, parent networks and many others to leverage our collective resources to support schools.

We're here today because parents and the public need to know what's really going on in schools run by the Noble Network, a charter school management company that has been called «a miracle,» a model that all schools should copy.

In the SGC legislation, it says that * after 3 years * IF an SGC notes lack of improvement, etc, THEN they may vote to reconstitute a school, which can include as a possibility the change to charter school management.

Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor and owns and operates charter schools in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island utilizes the draconian techniques of excessive school suspensions and a «re-orientation» room.

readers learned of an apparent deal by Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor and his senior staff to turn over Hartford's Clark Elementary School to a major Washington D.C. based charter school management company despite the fact that the Clark Turnaround Committee, which is made up of local parents, teachers, administrators and Hartford residents, hadn't even begun to identify which of five possible turnaround models they were interested in pursuing.

According to the charter school application approved by Malloy's State Board of Education yesterday, there is a rather unseemly and bizarre connection between the Booker T. Washington Charter School, the charter school management company known as Jumoke / FUSE Inc. and the Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

readers learned in a recent post entitled Malloy nominates charter school corporate officer to Connecticut State Board of Education, Andrea Comer worked for Charter School Management company, Achievement First, Inc., a company co-founded by Connecticut Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, from 2009 to 2011 and started with Fuse / Jumoke Academy in 2012.

In her commentary piece, Wendy Lecker reminded readers that as part of Malloy's education reform effort, Hartford's Milner School, a school where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy schools.

In addition to serving as COO of a charter school management company, she would be voting on whether to expand existing charter schools, authorize new charter schools and move more taxpayer funds from public district schools to charter schools.

Public opposition to another privately run, publicly funded charter school in New Haven has led to the City's pro-charter superintendent of schools withdrawing his plan to turn over even more scarce public funds to Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Perry has also set up his own private charter school management company and with eight of his fellow Capital Prep administrators and teachers Perry has submitted a proposal to open a charter school in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Achievement First, Inc. is Connecticut's largest charter school management company co-founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

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.