Sentences with phrase «profit from charter schools»

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.

A casualty of legislative negotiations was an effort by the Senate to crack down on businesses using state capital dollars to profit from charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately managed.

Cuomo's policies will punish teachers, students, and schools in communities disadvantaged by poverty, segregation, and under - funding, while they will reward the hedge fund managers who invested more than $ 10 million in last year's election and stand to profit from their charter school investments,» Hawkins said.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

Not exact matches

Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.

Hawkins said that Cuomo's hostility to public school teachers and their unions and his support for charter schools must be understood in light of his large campaign contributions from wealthy hedge fund managers who profit from the favorable tax treatment of investments in charter schools and who like the fact that most charters are non-union.

Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four schools from public institutions to for - profit charter schools, segregated schools, lack of funding for schools, high stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

So here, in this collection, I have drawn from various sources and experiences over time and around the world, ideas from inspectors and their reports, leadership training course tutors and candidates, school improvement ambassadors, union officials, faculty leaders, headteachers and principals in all their guises, governors, government officials, civil servants, councillors, parents, students, current, aspiring, ex and retired teachers, in the public, private, Academy, Charter, free, not - for - profit, voluntary and charitable sectors.

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As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SSchools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Sschools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison SchoolsSchools.

After this defeat, she shifted her focus to diverting taxpayer dollars from neighborhood public schools to for - profit charter schools.

The only hope for the future of our society, especially for poor black and Hispanic children, is escape from public schools, especially to charter schools, which are mostly funded by the government but controlled by private organizations, many of them operating to make a profit.

Bush shared his experiences initiating some of the nation's first for - profit and virtual charter school reforms as the governor of Florida, acknowledging his policy ideas came from some in the room.

Throughout his career, Mr. Hromatka has acted as lead banker on financings across the country and has developed a significant base of experience and relationships with diverse clients ranging from charter schools to state and local governments, school districts and not - for - profit agencies.

Brockman's bill for achievement school districts — a reform that could grant for - profit charters the ability to wring control of a low - performing school from a local school district — is not about teachers, he insists.

In spite of a wealth of information that points to K12, Inc. running a business operation that has poor returns by failing to adequately educate students, yet continues to profit mightily from state taxpayers, some are still enthusiastic about the prospect of the virtual charter school coming to North Carolina, including Rep. Larry Pittman, a supporter of virtual charters.

Last week's panel came as Republican lawmakers pushed legislation that could wrest control of some chronically low - performing schools from local school boards, placing staffing and curriculum powers in the hands of for - profit charter operators in so - called «achievement school districts.»

So, what happens to the republic once the traditional public schools have all been removed from the protection of the U.S. Constitution and are controlled by autocratic, for profit, often fraudulent, opaque and abusive publicly funded but private sector corporate charter schools that use bully tactics to achieve their goals?

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

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.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public sCharter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public scharter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

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.

To be clear, the charter sector does have a unique set of problems — from significant variation in student performance to a lack of accountability and transparency in for - profit charter schools that, in many cases, should result in those schools being shut down.

In my own report about charter operations in North Carolina, I find these schools regularly mask how their charitable dollars are spent and how much they profit from related real estate deals and education management firms.

From our humble beginnings as a single entity in rented space, we have become Arizona's largest not - for - profit charter school network, the largest «brick and mortar» classical education provider in the country, and we are excited about working with new partners to extend this education to eager students nationwide.

In addition, charters have spurred a for - profit management industry that caused charter school creator Shanker to back away from the reform he initially championed.

In 2012 and 2014, the Florida Federation for Children received a total of $ 200,000 from a for - profit group, Charter Schools USA.

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.

An alliance of business and political leaders in the state had urged Brown to sign Assembly Bill 709, which would have required that all charters be transparent about how they spend public funds, and would have barred charter school board members and their relatives from profiting from their schools.

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.

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A study from earlier this year found that nonprofit charter schools (which account for more than 80 percent of charter schools in the country) are delivering substantially better results than for - profit charter schools.

The bill arrived in the House containing some rare charter school accountability measures such as preventing operators from profiting off of third party real estate schemes.

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.

But one thing missing from their agenda is anything that seeks to hold charter schools and for - profit charter operators accountable for how they spend money and educate children and their level of transparency to the public.

General Assembly members forbade cuts from GOP - backed initiatives such as the teacher prep program Teach for America and the Innovative School District, formerly called the Achievement School District, which could allow for - profit charter operators to take over several low - performing schools in the coming years.

Exempts for - profit charter developers from school building codes, taxes, fees and assessments and state procurement laws.

Bill Cobey, chairman of North Carolina's State Board of Education, has heard all about K12 Inc.'s California settlement, a purported $ 168.5 million pact with the state's attorney general amid long - running allegations that the for - profit virtual charter school operator inflated student test scores and attendance to drain more cash from public coffers.

That set - up by some charter operators allows them to financially profit from the taxpayer money they receive to operate public charter schools.

The scheme is similar to the Charter School system in the United States and the situation in Sweden, where non-profit and profit - making groups can set up schools - funded by the government - but free from its control.

Rep. Fresen is the subject of two active ethics complaints and his colleagues in the Florida House receive a bounty of campaign contributions every year from the for - profit charter school industry.

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Here are a few examples: the for - profit company will install their own handpicked boards that in turn hire the company for «management,» and these fees routinely cost up to 15 % of the school's FTE; the for - profit company will demand that parents purchase supplies directly from the school itself, which is often another LLC that charges exorbitant rates for the basics; in many cases, the biggest part of the scam is one LLC (e.g. Red Apple Development, the construction arm of Charter Schools USA) will purchase land to build the school on and then turn around and charge the school (read: taxpayers) rent that is substantially higher than the going rate / property value, sometimes as high as a million dollars a year.

When the goal of making a profit competes with the goals of teaching and learning, there is a critical need for oversight of charter schools» finances and facilities.The problems range from related parties receiving excessive lease payments to «family affair» charter schools with several relatives on the payroll.

Real dissent from Democrats should equate to aggressively limiting DeVos's policies, which have included restricting state oversight, promoting for - profit charter management organizations and encouraging vouchers for private schools including those that are faith - based.

Last year, California legislators tried to ban for - profit charter schools from operating in their state, but Democratic Governor Jerry Brown vetoed the bill, saying he did not «believe the case has been made to eliminate for - profit charter schools in California.»

For example, when a nonprofit charter school operator hires a for - profit company, it sometimes pays the for - profit more than 95 % of the tax dollars it receives from the state.

As the Charlotte Observer reports, in the first four years after the state's cap on charters was lifted, «the number of North Carolina charter schools run by a for - profit management company... more than doubled, from eight to 17.»

These ALEC members are taking a victory lap for diverting money from public schools to the for - profit gateway drug of charter schools leading to private schools funded entirely with public money.