Sentences with phrase «private charter companies»

In 2012, Milner school was selected by the Commissioner of Education for a second «turnaround» under the management of a private charter company, Jumoke / FUSE, which would be paid a management fee of around $ 350,000 a year.

The idea was that this private charter company could do a better job operating a public school.

Our Maui resort staff would be delighted to recommend a private charter company or romantic boat tour to you and your spouse.

Should you book a charter, a representative from our private charter company will be waiting for you at the international gate.

Not exact matches

For companies shuttling five or six executives, the cost of tickets can easily match or exceed the cost of a direct charter on a private jet, said Crabbe.

Launched in 2016, public charter air carrier is a subsidiary of private jet charter company JetSuite and a distant cousin of JetBlue Airways.

In 2000, Cotroneo founded a company called Corporate Air Services, a caterer serving charter airlines and private jets in New Jersey and New York state.

The scant regulation early in the country's life, and the wide variety of paper currencies in circulation via private banks and other state - chartered companies like insurance vendors and railroads, meant a free - for - all for any enterprising soul with a flair for forgery.

The startup that wants to make flying in a private jet affordable is partnering with one of the industry's largest jet - charter companies.

We can all agree that Fannie and Freddie as business models were seriously flawed — private companies with a public charter, poor incentives for management, excess leverage for their book of credit risk, and so forth — and they are rightly being effigized for it.

George Ford, chief economist for the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Public Policy Studies, said EPB got the equivalent of $ 2,000 per customer in federal subsidies to build its citywide fiber optic network Ford said other government - owned utilities, such as one in Bristol, Va., have gotten $ 7,000 or more per subscriber to add telecommunications services that compete against private companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Charter Communications.

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.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio waded into private - sector labor relations last night on «Inside City Hall,» offering his opinion on the labor strike affecting Spectrum, a subsidiary of Charter Communications, and the company that owns NY1.

New Yorkers For Independent Action, the PAC paying for the mailers, is advocating for the education tax credit that would see the state give tax rebates to individuals and companies who donate to private, religious, and charter schools.

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

In Ohio, where online charter schools have been authorized since the early 2000s, a variety of providers can operate online charter schools, including school districts, non-profits, and private for - profit companies.

This would facilitate the establishment of both individualized charter schools and multiple private companies with powerful education brand names.

In spring 2006, Maryland state superintendent of public instruction Nancy Grasmick sought to take over 11 chronically low - performing Baltimore schools that were subject to restructuring and convert them to charters or contract their management with private companies.

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.

The spate of troubles leaves the company's 37 preschools, private schools, and public charter schools, which serve some 8,000 students, facing...

The paper reported that «charter schools have become a parallel school system unto themselves, a system controlled largely by for - profit management companies and private landlords — one and the same, in many cases — and rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest.»

The for - profit companies that operate some charter and online schools take the idea a step further by arguing that private business models are more efficient than public school systems.

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, California.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

The school's charter holder had created numerous self - dealing operations (all legal under Arizona state charter school law) where the school contracted directly with private companies owned and operated by himself and his wife.

The Ohio Supreme Court, for instance, found that state law dictates that everything a private charter school company purchases with public dollars — from desks to computers — belongs to the private company, not the public.

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.

Last week, the General Assembly approved legislation that allows private, for - profit charter school management companies to keep their employees» salaries secret, even though they are paid with public funds.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

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.

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.

«Perry's group» being a private company that Steve Perry formed out of his home in 2012 and then moved its address to Capital Prep, a public school building while he submitted the paperwork to become a «non-profit» charter school management company under the federal IRS code.

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.»

None of the options school choice advocates promote — charter schools, voucher supported private schools, online schools operated by private companies — are part of a truly public school system.

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

Edtech companies that pilot with LEAP gain valuable insights and visibility within Chicago Public Schools, including traditional and charter schools, as well as private schools.

The ASD superintendent would be able to fire all teachers and staff and enter into five year contracts with private charter school management companies to handle the schools» operations, all in a bid to catapult low performing schools from the bottom five percent up into the top echelon of the state's high performing schools.

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

Because private companies view charters as business enterprises, private companies have no place in public education.

The previous Differentiated Accountability (DA) statute called for four Intervene turnaround models for the lowest performing schools: district managed turnaround, closure, operation through a private management company, or conversion to a charter school.

At least three of the charter schools will be using the taxpayer money to pay down debt on buildings that these private charter school companies own.

Local school boards, superintendents, and especially communities were not interested in closing schools, and private management companies and charter schools were also not interested in the turnaround work in Florida.

After prominent failures in Hartford, Conn., and Baltimore, private management companies have begun to focus more on charter schools, which usually are freed from many of the regulatory restraints that most public schools have to follow.

I've just realized that the Turnaround Model the state is so anxious to effect on its «lowest performing schools» and of which Andrea Comer and Michael Sharpe are experts should actually be called the Turn Over Model — as in, Turn Over your public taxpayer dollars to a private «non-profit» charter company, such as FUSE or Achievement First.

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.

The contracts are an example of how the charter schools sometimes cede control of public dollars to private companies that have no legal obligation to act in the best interests of the schools or taxpayers.

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.

Both Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are big supporters of charter schools, publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and of voucher / voucher - like programs, which use public funds for tuition and educational expenses at private and religious schools.

In fact, one study found that scores really went up about 8 percent over those seven years and Duncan's controversial strategy of closing low - performing schools and handing the students over to charter school companies and other private sector vendors, «did little good for students.»

24) New York: Private charter school company pumps $ 78,000 into state Senate races.