Sentences with phrase «open a charter school company»

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Laura will open and lead a new department for AltSchool as the company prepares to support private, charter, and public schools who will utilize the platform.

The roadblocks are especially severe when virtual schools also tie in with other controversial reforms, such as charter schools, contracting out to private management companies, and the interdistrict competition for students generated by open enrollment.

After their first Tucson charter school was ranked the nation's sixth - best high school by Newsweek, the Blocks went on to found BASIS.ed, a management company that operates 12 BASIS Schools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, CaliSchools around the country, with two additional BASIS Independent (private) schools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, Calischools to be opened in Brooklyn, New York and San Jose, California.

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.

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

Clemons is not only a founding Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tCharter School and served, up until last year, as a Board Member of one of the Achievement First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds tcharter schools in New Haven, Clemons's company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons» company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more public funds to come.

Rees: A local school district does not tell charters when to open or close their doors, what kind of curriculum to use, what company to contract for food or paper.

But upon learning of allegations and charges of academic fraud and other abuses at charter schools in Florida that are managed by Newpoint Education Partners — a company that hopes to open two charter schools in Wake and New Hanover counties — the Board indicated Wednesday that they are likely to temporarily put the brakes on allowing that charter management company to do business in North Carolina, a decision that will be determined in a final vote Thursday.

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 recently created a management company to open charter schools at a hefty fee.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

Houston's Spring Branch school district, for instance, courted two proven charter companies — KIPP and YES Prep — to open schools with their own teachers and principals inside two existing public schools.

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

In addition to opening Iberville Charter Academy, the company already manages another school in Baton Rouge.

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.

Among today's employment advertisements is a job opening for a «Test Writer,» which is part of the Department of Data and Accountability (D&A), at the Charter Management Company, known as Academy Charter Schools.

Fitzsimon says «two online charter schools opened in the state this fall, operated by two different for - profit companies, one of which, K12 Inc., has a scandal - plagued record in other states,» and that «last week brought maybe the most compelling evidence of all that the General Assembly made a terrible decision in ordering the state board to approve the schools.

Summerfield Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford Charter Academy, run by one of the nation's largest charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford charter school management companies, is scheduled to open this fall in Guilford County.

Gary Middle College, run by the same company as 21st Century Charter School, will open next year as the city's eighth charter Charter School, will open next year as the city's eighth charter sSchool, will open next year as the city's eighth charter charter schoolschool.

Academica, the state of Florida's largest charter school company, already manages one school in Los Angeles and is looking to open another in nearby Glendale.

K12, Inc., a Virginia - based for - profit company that runs online schools in 32 states and attributes nearly 85 percent of its income to public dollars, has been trying to make its way into North Carolina to open a virtual charter school.

The company did not submit any applications to open in the current back of charter school hopefuls being examined by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.

The Firm's partners actively represent over one hundred of Texas and Louisiana's most distinguished charter holders, open - enrollment charter schools and charter management companies.

The New Jersey Virtual Academy Charter School had been recruiting students for months and intended to open this fall for 850 students in grades K - 10, according to Jeff Kwitowski, a spokesman at Virginia - based K12, a for - profit online learning company.

Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy, his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, and Pryor's minions of charter school allies are diverting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to private companies that have been allowed to open up charter schools or have been given no - bid contracts to run local public schools in Connecticut's poorest communities.

It is time to stop opening new charter schools until stronger laws are passed to ensure transparency and accountability for charters and the companies that manage them.

«Earlier this month [November 2014], the New York Board of Regents moved to approve a charter school application from Steve Perry, a principal of a public school in Connecticut who has formed a charter school management company in the hopes of opening up charter schools in the greater New York City region.

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.

The Governor's plan also calls for funding a charter school company from the Bronx that says it will save Stamford, Connecticut by opening a sister school there.

Days before Kamalani Academy opened in August, the new Wahiawa charter school was scrambling — to train teachers, to find a vendor to provide school lunches, to figure out how to get enough electricity to operate until the power company could install a new transformer.

Initially the Great Oaks Charter School company proposed that they would be ready to open a charter school in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 schooCharter School company proposed that they would be ready to open a charter school in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 schoolSchool company proposed that they would be ready to open a charter school in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 schoocharter school in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 schoolschool in Bridgeport in time for the 2015/2016 schoolschool year.

Moreover, why hasn't the legislature mandated that Pryor's Achievement First charter management company be excluded from consideration with respect to opening ANY charter schools in CT?

Finch is a leading supporter of Achievement First's Bridgeport Charter School and is lobbying on behalf of Capital Prep Steve Perry's attempt to use his own private company to open a charter school in BridCharter School and is lobbying on behalf of Capital Prep Steve Perry's attempt to use his own private company to open a charter school in BridgSchool and is lobbying on behalf of Capital Prep Steve Perry's attempt to use his own private company to open a charter school in Bridcharter school in Bridgschool in Bridgeport.

A year ago, almost to the day, a group of Bridgeport citizens, including Maria Pereira, attended the State Board of Education meeting to request Governor Dannel Malloy's political appointees REJECT applications by two more charter school companies to open privately run, but publicly funded facilities in Bridgeport.

Again, even though the local board of education voted against the proposal and testified against the project before the State Board of Education and the Connecticut General Assembly, less Connecticut taxpayer funds will be going to public schools and instead, a Bronx charter school company will be getting millions so that it can open a charter school in the Governor's hometown.

have been among the most vocal proponents of diverting scarce public taxpayer funds to Achievement First, Inc, the large charter school management company, to former charter school operator Dr.» Michael Sharpe and his disgraced FUSE charter school chain and Steve Perry, the controversial anti-teacher former Hartford school administrator and self - described «most trusted educator in America,» who, thanks to Governor Malloy is opening his own privately owned but publicly funded «boutique» charter school company.

While making record cuts to public schools and human services the Hartford Courant is reporting that Connecticut's Democratic legislative leaders have caved in to Governor Malloy and agreed to force their follow Democrats in the legislature to vote in favor of giving two more charter school companies the money they want to open schools in Bridgeport and Stamford.

We are talking about billionaires and millionaires and the major education reform companies, organizations and foundations dumping tens of millions of dollars into state and local efforts to elect handpicked accomplices or even, where necessary, changing the rules to make it easier to open charter schools and dismantle the core elements of a broad - based public education system.

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.

New Profit, Inc. also «invests» in a variety of other corporate education reform industry companies and front groups including Educators 4 Excellence, a New York based anti-union advocacy group that recently opened offices in Connecticut; the Kipp Charter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizCharter School Chain, a company that runs well over 100 charter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizcharter schools around the nation; the «Achievement Network» and «Turnaround for Children,» two other corporate education reform organizations.

It will be a new kindergarten through eighth - grade school run by Fort Lauderdale - based Charter Schools USA, a for - profit management company that operates another 47 charters in the state and has five new schools opening thiSchools USA, a for - profit management company that operates another 47 charters in the state and has five new schools opening thischools opening this fall.

In cases where the company lost the charter but the school remained open under different management, schools allege that it was «a very bad divorce.»

His proposal would allow the state to take over consistently failing schools and enable private management companies to open charter schools in failing neighborhoods.

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..

TAMPA - A Florida - based charter school company has applied to open a kindergarten - through - eighth grade charter school on MacDill Air Force Base that would accommodate nearly 900 students...

-- A company linked to a charter school organization has bought a tract of land in Parkland, marking a potential first step toward opening the city's first charter school.