Sentences with phrase «companies running charter»

In addition, your tax dollars are going to private - school vouchers and to for - profit companies running charter schools and take - over schools.

WHEREAS, the billionaires funding Students First and Democrats for Education Reform are supporting candidates and local programs that would dismantle a free public education for every student in California and replace it with company run charter schools, non-credentialed teachers and unproven untested so - called «reforms»;

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He owns a residential construction company and runs Montauk Fishing Safaris, a sportfishing charter boat company that operates out of Montauk and Sag Harbor.

Many companies which twenty years ago ran their own ships now charter vessels from third parties.

According to the Center for Education Reform, 19 of these companies ran 350 charter schools in 2001 -» 02, about 14 percent of the nation's charter schools.

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.

From its headquarters here in Mr. Brennan's hometown, the privately held company runs roughly a sixth of the state's 91 charter schools and spends about $ 30...

Meanwhile, a company such as Edison Schools or a nonprofit such as KIPP applies for a charter to run a replacement school out of that very facility.

«I can't even begin to say we have this all figured out,» she said while giving ProPublica a tour of Aloma High, another charter school the company runs in Orange County.

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.

As of the fall of 1999, 162 of 216 charter - school operators were running a single campus; only 10 ran 5 or more, signaling a grassroots movement driven mainly by local educators and parents, not distant management companies.

There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.

-------- «The district has hired Family Urban Schools of Excellence, a Hartford - based company that runs four charter schools and one traditional public school in Hartford, to manage Dunbar.

Board members this fall asked administrators to review three options: converting district schools into charters; opening district - run charter schools; and acting as a «management company» that would be contracted to help run charter schools.

Charter Schools USA, a Florida - based private school management company, will run the school next year — and the Indiana Board of Education grappled with how to fund it at its Wednesday meeting.

The Plato Academy charter application is from an out - of - town charter company with an out - of - town school board run by a for - profit management company.

Imagine Southeast opened in 2008, a school run by an Arlington - based for - profit company that manages charters in a dozen states.

The pro-Common Core, pro-Charter School group has even hired Malloy's chief adviser, as well as Malloy's former press secretary, to run their PR campaign in support of Malloy's plan to divert even more scarce public dollars to charter schools companies.

Public education in Philadelphia is a mixture of district - run schools, schools operated by private management companies and charter schools, which are public but operate independently from the district.

During the 2014 session, lawmakers enacted a pilot program that allows two companies to run virtual charter schools in North Carolina.

Even though K12, Inc. is notorious for churning students through its programs and failing to demonstrate academic progress, both of the companies» virtual charter programs are likely to get the green light since the legislation compels the State Board of Education to get the pilot program up and running this fall.

And relentless questions have dogged the eastern North Carolina charter operator Baker Mitchell, who runs four charter schools and has reportedly profited in the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through his for - profit companies that lease the land to the schools and run their operations.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

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.

He laid off most all the staff and hired charter school company Mosaica Education to run the schools for five years.

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.

He plans to authorize only nonprofit organizations, not for - profit companies, to run independent charter schools in Madison.

The primary target is the California Virtual Charters or CAVA, which is run by the national company K12, Inc..

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

The Sarasota school board will vote today on a proposed Pinecrest charter run by the for - profit management company Academica.

The ASD's superintendent (chosen by a search committee headed up by the Lieutenant Governor, who is a vocal critic of public education) would be in charge of recommending to the State Board of Education which charter management company should run the schools.

Commissioner Pryor and the State Board of Education originally approved the Booker T. Washington Charter School based on the fact that it would be run by Jumoke / FUSE, but after the collapse of that company, the proponents of the Booker T. Washington School were allowed to find a new «management» operation.

Both of the organizations currently running the schools — private company Charter Schools USA and non-profit EdPower — expressed their support for the switch.

A report by a Washington think tank about a California virtual charter run by the company found a series of problems, including dramatically lower test scores than traditional public schools, startling high dropout rates, questionable attendance figures and a host of other problems.

A Florida company, Charter Schools USA, is running three other schools in Indianapolis.

There's the explosion of for - profit charter school companies that run what are supposed to be public schools that serve students and communities not out of state corporations and their shareholders.

And when «the unwanted» do get into charter schools, the companies running the schools use immoral and unethical tactics to push out students that don't fit their corporate profile.

DPI officials presented sobering reports to the N.C. State Board of Education this month that detailed high withdrawal rates at North Carolina's two virtual charters, both of which are run by for - profit companies dogged by allegations of lagging student performance in other states.

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.

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.

Some charters are run by for - profit companies and have little oversight, resulting in scandal after scandal that has resulted in charges against some charter operators.

While suspensions were shockingly high in some urban areas, the magnitude of suspensions was the most extreme at the charter schools run by Achievement First, the charter school management company that was co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education.

As of result of Vallas» work, most schools in New Orleans are now run by charter school management companies.

An Arizona charter school company, that already runs three charter schools, told Reuters that they «couldn't believe how easy it was to secure $ 4.5 million in funding from abroad.»

At the school level, stories of charters founded by groups of teachers and parents recall the early days of the movement, but increasingly, private companies and management entities are taking responsibility for opening and running charter schools.

The old district remains only to pay off debt, while a new district, the Highland Park Public School Academy System is run by a charter school management company.

Many were concerned that Pryor, a key player behind Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, would use his position to take over neighborhood schools and hand them over to his friends and colleagues in the Charter School incharter school management company that runs twenty schools in New York and Connecticut, would use his position to take over neighborhood schools and hand them over to his friends and colleagues in the Charter School inCharter School industry.

For example, Achievement First, the charter school management company that runs 20 schools in New York and Connecticut would be one of the entities likely to be given control of «Commissioner's Network» schools because they have deep pockets and are favored by the commissioner of education who helped to form the company and served as one of the company's Directors for eight years until he resigned to become Malloy's commissioner.

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.