... Overall, it is those families who (along observable dimensions) are least like the current population of
private school customers that are most sensitive to price, suggesting that vouchers would substantially alter the socioeconomic composition of private schools.
Not exact matches
Octopus Investments also invests, on behalf of its
customers, in a range of different businesses and industries through its Ventures and Specialist Finance Teams, these will include construction of housing,
schools and hospitals, delivery of tech solutions to every day services (such as entertainment, property and social), food distribution,
private jet services, chauffeur services, distribution of healthcare products.
Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our
customers are small and medium sized public and
private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the economies of scale in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.
Their goods are transported by road, their workers are educated in
schools, their
customers are part of sophisticated networks taking in the
private sector, the public sector and charities.
Second, the telecom industry argued, self - provisioning could create perverse incentives for companies not to serve rural areas, by taking two of those communities» best potential
customers (
schools and libraries) off the
private market.
To these advocates, the very idea of public oversight of
private providers is redundant: market forces will ensure that
schools will deliver high quality service because
customers — parents just as much as outsourcing public agencies — will otherwise just take their money, and children, elsewhere.
You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being
customers of
schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from
school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable
private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district
schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.
As a graduate student at a UC
school, you are a
private customer of business run on behalf of the State of California.
A
customer was scaling a
private school model, taking the best curriculums and teaching methodologies from around the world, to a nationally branded concept, which was 50 % more affordable than traditional
private schools.