Sentences with phrase «companies running the schools»

Sweden's free school model is often rolled out as an example by both those for and against the idea of companies running schools.

Companies running schools in this niche often save costs by relying on computer programs that reduce the need for credentialed teachers.

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.

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.

David Archer, head of programme development at ActionAid, told Schools Week: «Introducing a for - profit motive into running schools and having big companies running the schools is just not right.

Miron said that for - profit companies running the schools have led to some to some questionable practices, like heavily marketing its schools to families that are not fit for the program in order to rake in more money.

These for - profit companies run their schools as cheaply as possible and pocket the profit with no limits.

Collective bargaining would be outlawed at Commissioner's Network» Schools and the organizations or companies running the schools would not have to abide by the state laws limiting the use of consultants or requiring things like competitive bidding for purchases.

Opponents point out that there is no evidence that taking this drastic action would improve the quality of these schools and, in the meantime, they would become «cash cows» for the people and companies running those schools.

Yes, they are state certified and yes, they are legitimate companies running these schools.

Not exact matches

Having founded a video game company, and with major investments in an eyewear company, Piqué is increasingly involved in business strategy himself; in 2017 he underwent an executive program at Harvard Business School, and he says he hopes to run Barça in the future, after he finally retires from football, probably in a few years» time.

CitySoft CEO Nick Gleason was a community and labor organizer in Oakland, Calif., and ran his own urban - development consulting company, serving nonprofits, foundations, school districts, and governments.

A Turkish company has run the Mogadishu port since 2014, while other Turkish firms have built roads, schools, and hospitals.

Barnes argues that the smaller amounts, typically $ 20,000 or less, allow students to run their companies and stay in school — as well as boost their entrepreneurial education by forcing them to be scrappy and resourceful.

Even if the FDA puts its foot down, «companies are always going to be able to find a new synonym or creative marketing term» that doesn't run afoul of regulations, says Margaret Pollan, an assistant professor of environmental food law at Pace Law School.

The duo fixed and sold old computers in high school, ran a web development company out of their dorm rooms in college, and worked together at O'Kelley's first advertising startup Right Media post-grad.

«You would think that common sense would dictate that we choose someone who is well versed in business and has experience running a company for president,» said Barbara Kellerman, a James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

From the time he graduated from Howard Law School, he had one plan: to run his own media company with a multicultural focus.

A lower proportion of Americans said that their schooling gave them the skills to run a company.

And Robert Locke recently wrote a book on business school education pointing out that the whole focus of business school education now was to have industrial companies run by financial managers — not salesmen, not production end, not lawyers, but financial managers.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

After Harvard Law School, he clerked for the federal court, practiced law in Boston and Washington, and ran such biotechnological companies as Biogen in Cambridge.

You sure you aren't going to vote for someone who's never ran a private sector company, came from a broken home and raised by a Muslim in a foreign country who won't release his school transcripts?

His company Fine Vintage Ltd runs 10 WSET schools, runs wine tours to 5 destinations around the world, consults to wineries, airlines and governments, and operates 16 wine jobs websites in different countries.

He assisted the WSET with the curriculum for this Unit, he teaches it online for the London Wine & Spirits School, and as background has run a number of multi-national drinks companies and was Chairman of the Institute of Masters of Wine.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

And usually at the end of the day, the people who stand up for other people's rights, those are the people that when they leave school, those are the people that will run companies.

Nina Hansen, vice president of operations for the Enosburg Falls - based Abbey Group, which runs the food service programs at 70 Vermont public and private schools, as well as schools in New York and New Hampshire, said these unpaid bills are a problem in many districts, but none of the schools her company serves would stop a student from eating because of it.

But those prior events felt a lot like window - dressing for Aramark, the food service management company that used to run our school food department, and I never left those meetings feeling particularly optimistic.

Serving healthful food to children should be central to the school system's mission and run by school officials, not by a for - profit company, she said.

If you said to a private company, «I'm going to give you $ 20 billion a year to run the New York City school system,» they would question how the money is allocated.

The object of all this ire and satire was Pearson PLC, the company based in Great Britain that has a nearly $ 33 million contract with New York state to write and administer tests given to K - 12 public school students and to help run teacher training tests.

The Prime Minister is to announce that companies will get the chance to run everything from elderly care and bin collection to schools and hospitals.

The company paid scientists at Duke University School of Medicine and Florida Clinical Research Center to run a four - week study involving 80 children ages eight to 12 — 40 with ADHD who were not taking medications and 40 neurotypical, or those whose functions were within a normal range.

Thanks to a personal connection, one of the most successful biotechnology companies in the United States is apparently the new title sponsor of the Science Talent Search (STS), the prestigious high school science competitions run by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP) in Washington, D.C. New York - based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. will invest $ 100 million over the next 10 years to become the third such sponsor in STS's nearly 75 - year - long history, according to several media outlets.

The skillset and value set for running a company are very different than being successful in graduate school.

William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school A newly sober Brad Pitt is making amends, and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston is at the top of his list.

An adult goof - off goes back to elementary school in order to run his father's company.

The Fishers run into unexpected guests at an art - school benefit featuring works by Claire and company.

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Sherpa Kids is an international company which runs before and after school and vacation care activities with primary schools and other community facilities.

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.

As important as a company's expertise and systems are to its schools, the quality of the school - level leadership is still critical for the success of EMO - run schools.

Last month, as the board moved to approve a contract with a for - profit company to run the school, the Wilkinsburg Education Association sued.

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.

Although Pierce has not integrated every aspect of Edison's design into the running of Harriet Tubman, she has mimicked the company's policy of bringing parents into the school at the end of every trimester to discuss their children's progress.

They had campaigned on an «anti-privatization» platform, criticizing the district for considering such options as hiring a private, for - profit company to help run some of its schools.

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...

Full - time virtual schools, the majority of which are run under contract to a for - profit schooling company, are part of this landscape.