Sentences with phrase «private management companies»

He opposes the proliferation of charters, especially those run by private management companies who want to profit off our kids.

But Heins especially lauded Newsom's opposition to «the proliferation of charters, especially those run by private management companies who want to profit off our kids.

As a mutual insurance company, MLMIC's corporate structure is different from PRI: There's no outside private management company that makes money based on the amount of premiums written.

Education historian Diane Ravitch argues parent trigger laws can only benefit private management companies who would run the charter schools opened in place of a traditional public school.

This time the Hartford BOE was presented with a plan to hand the SAND elementary school over to Steve Perry's new private management company.

The book also pays special attention to the role of private management companies, which operate nearly three - fourths of the state's charter schools.

The legislation «would require private management companies to disclose more openly how they spend tax funding while addressing low academic performance in online schools, «exorbitant» lease deals, poor attendance and other issues.»

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.

That's not always the case in these sites, Lansing points out; at Angkor Wat in Cambodia, another World Heritage site, most of the tourism revenues go to a private management company, and very little money reaches the local communities.

The most drastic restructuring options — conversion to a charter school, state takeover, or contracting with a private management company to operate the school — were used by few schools, and not at all in many states.

Private management companies have responded to these pressures by offering comprehensive reform packages that districts can contract to be implemented in schools that either need or want to try major reform.

While some have criticized parent trigger measures as «inherently divisive» or as another means of diverting public dollars to private management companies, Kruse says parents in struggling schools should not have to wait through six years» - worth of F's for the state to intervene.

This is one more pillar in recreating our public school system on «free market principles,» (charter schools, private management companies, pay for performance, vouchers; Look out — vouchers are next.)

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.

A primary solution, according to these education reformers is to remove public schools out of the control of local community school boards and hand them over to boards made up of corporate leaders or even hand them over to private management companies.

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.

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.

Betsy DeVos has one mission at the Department of Education: to expand charter schools and lead the establishment of a federal voucher program — a program that would siphon public dollars meant for our public schools, and allow it to pad the pockets and budgets of private schools and private management companies.

Michael Sharpe, Jumoke's CEO simply skates over the truth that had the State of Connecticut given the Hartford Board of Education the extra targeted funds, instead of privatizing the school and handing its control over to private management company, these children would have had the smaller classes and better student / teacher ratios long ago.

«Entering into a contract with an entity, such as a private management company, with a demonstrated record of effectiveness, to operate the public school.»

Required skills: Renovation expertise and long - range planning are needed to improve properties that were allowed to deteriorate during the 1990s and to ensure viability for the 40 - plus — year leases that the military often grants to private management companies.