Sentences with phrase «hold charter school companies»

Earlier this month, Sarah Darer Littman had a column in CT Newsjunkie reminding readers to be on the lookout for an attempt by the charter school industry and Governor Dannel Malloy to undermine efforts to hold charter school companies accountable for the public funds they get.

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WHEREAS Wall Street financier and private equity fund manager Steven Klinsky is the founder of Victory Education Partners, Inc., a privately held, for - profit educational management company that manages charter schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois; and

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...

Their reports are an effort to hold charter school operators (private companies that receive taxpayer dollars to manage a school) accountable to the same financial and transparency standards as public schools.

This privately - held company and nonprofit seems to have a talent for commingling the efforts of private charter interests and public oversight conduits that creates serious conflicts of interest, causing a California state whistleblowing attorney to be ``... opposed to such activities between public officials, private interests, and public charter schools.»

Unless one has background and expertise in the circular financial dealings of charter schools, their management companies, and related non-profit holdings, it is difficult to decipher the financial picture of F.T.C.M.S. and its sister schools.

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.

With the General Assembly returning to the Capitol to adopt legislation needed to implement next year's state budget, it would be nice to believe that Connecticut's elected officials won't fold under the pressure to back off the demand for transparency on the part of the privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools and their holding companies.

Comer, who works as the Chief Operations Officer for the FUSE / Jumoke Academy charter school management company, and previously worked for Commissioner Stefan Pryor's Achievement First, Inc, one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, will be filling the State Board of Education seat that was most recently held by an official from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education.

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!

But rather than holding Perry accountable for his failings, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, has supported his taxpayer - supported entrepreneurial efforts by pushing through approval of a plan that would allow Perry to use his private company to a charter school in New Haven.

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.