Sentences with phrase «profit charter school companies»

There's the explosion of for - profit charter school companies that run what are supposed to be public schools that serve students and communities not out of state corporations and their shareholders.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan says the consequences of turning entire school districts over to for - profit charter school companies deserves more consideration from state lawmakers.

Rep. Rob Bryan is working on legislation behind the scenes in the General Assembly that could turn over poorly performing public schools to for - profit charter school companies who could then fire teachers and administrators at will with no accountability.

And it has long been known that Smith has some pretty conservative stances when it comes to unions and education (he's pro-charter schools, and even once owned a for - profit charter school company).

Jeff Klaus is connected to the CEO of Achievement First — the privately - run, for - profit charter school company which was slated to get $ 10 million of state money if Malloy's original bill was passed.

Before setting up his own company, he served as a Vice President of National Heritage Academies, a for - profit charter chain that owns and operates 75 charter schools in nine states, making it the third largest for - profit charter school company in the United States.

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The UFT is hitting the airwaves today with a 60 - second radio spot that slams for - profit charter school management companies as «more interested in making money and ducking accountability than fighting for our kids» and spending «millions on false attacks against teachers and public schools.»

But for - profit charter school management companies are playing politics in Albany.

WHEREAS Klinsky is also a founder of the Great Oaks Foundation, a not - for - profit educational company established after New York State amended its charter law to prohibit for - profit charter management of new charter schools, which is sponsoring charter schools in New York and New Jersey; and

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.

It seems that the support of nonconservative charter advocates depends, in part, on the fact that up to now the movement has been composed mostly of grassroots, community - based schools — not franchises of profit - seeking companies.

A new education management company, led by the former head of a global electric company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of charter schools.

c. Should states allow for - profit companies to manage the operation of charter schools?

In less than four years, White Hat Ventures LLC, the company Mr. Brennan founded to operate charter schools, has become Ohio's largest for - profit education management company.

Florida has the third - largest charter sector in the nation — with more than 650 schools serving almost 300,000 students — but half of its charters are operated by for - profit companies, fostering negative public perceptions and greater reluctance to share tax dollars.

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 role of charter alternative schools like Sunshine — publicly funded but managed by for - profit companies — is likely to grow under the new U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, an ardent supporter of school choice.

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.

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).

Last school year, 137 students assigned to Olympia's attendance zone instead attended Sunshine High, a charter alternative school run by a for - profit company.

Subject charter schools to the same procurement practices as District schools — so they can't make sweetheart deals with their own for - profit companies.

In 2014, the online charter school Primavera Technical Learning Center paid a flat fee of $ 12.2 million for software and curriculum services to The American Virtual Academy, a for - profit company owned by the school's charter holder.

The Grand Canyon Institute's comprehensive financial analysis found that charter schools were rampant with related - party transactions, a practice where charter school operators did business with for - profit companies owned by the charter holder, members of the school's corporate board or relatives of either.

The for - profit company is not required to disclose its financials to the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools.

While for - profit companies such as Edison Schools Inc. operate charter schools in many states, the Washington law was drafted to excludSchools Inc. operate charter schools in many states, the Washington law was drafted to excludschools in many states, the Washington law was drafted to exclude them.

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.

The Plato Academy charter application is from an out - of - town charter company with an out - of - town school board run by a for - profit management company.

In a prior version of SB 793, the bill simply required charter schools to publicly disclose all employees» salaries, without making note of whether or not they were employed by the for - profit management company.

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

Richmond: A charter school can hire a for - profit company to manage its school.

The at - time unctuous, election - year parent trigger debate is pitting teachers» unions and parent groups against charter schools and for - profit management companies throughout the nation.

And relentless questions have dogged the eastern North Carolina charter operator Baker Mitchell, who runs four charter schools and has reportedly profited in the tens of millions in taxpayer dollars through his for - profit companies that lease the land to the schools and run their operations.

The last - minute changes to the legislation come at a time when one prominent Wilmington - based charter school operator, Baker A. Mitchell, Jr., has been fighting media requests for months that have asked him to fully disclose the salaries of all employees associated with his charter schools — teachers as well as employees of his for - profit education management company, Roger Bacon Academy.

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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.&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.&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.&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.»

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 plans to authorize only nonprofit organizations, not for - profit companies, to run independent charter schools in Madison.

Another example: across the nation, some for - profit companies that run charter schools engage in self - serving real estate deals, hide their financial practices from public view, assert that they own assets that were purchased with public monies, and spend large sums to influence state legislators.

The Sarasota school board will vote today on a proposed Pinecrest charter run by the for - profit management company Academica.

Some of the new slots will likely be filled by schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit companies like the National Heritage Academies (which already manage five charters in the state) and «virtual charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.

Although Bernie Sanders has not published an education platform, I trust him much more than I trust Clinton to listen to teachers and put the public good (public schools) about companies that would profit from charter schools and such.

The report from ProPublica tells the story of Baker Mitchell, a charter school operator in southeastern North Carolina, and the four charters that contract with Roger Bacon Academy, a for - profit company that Mitchell owns, to operate the schools.

One big fear of critics is that Bennett will allow for - profit companies to begin operating charter schools in Madison.

Market - oriented education reform refers to a series of initiatives that include educator evaluations based in large part on student standardized test scores, the closure of schools that are considered failing or underenrolled, and an increase in the number of charter schools, many of which are operated by for - profit companies.

In 2013, three students in Madawaska signed up for Maine Connection Academy, along with Maine Virtual Academy, one of two virtual charter schools in the state, both managed by for - profit companies.

But over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community - based effort to foster alternative education into a vehicle for privatizing public education, pushed by free - market foundations, big education - management companies, and profit - seekers looking for a way to cash in on public - education funds.

Charter schools are publicly funded but privately operated, sometimes by for - profit companies, and have been proliferating for more than 25 years, with thousands of them enrolling as much as 6 percent of America's schoolchildren around the country.

Leaders talked lawsuits, school closures and even outright defiance of the takeover plan, which could allow for - profit charter management companies to seize control of several low - performing, public schools in the coming years.

... By law, for - profit companies may only contract with the non-profit governing board of a charter school.