Sentences with phrase «school management company»

The very early track record of school management companies was mixed, but recent experience has been more positive.

Second, the school's management can be contracted out to an independent school management company, changing day - to - day control of the school.

The leases are backed by the charter holder or the charter school management company.

Achievement First, Inc, of course, is the large charter school management company co-founded by Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

Jonathan Sackler, whose pharmaceutical company makes OxyContin, is a founding member of Achievement First, Inc., the large Charter School Management Company with schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

KIPP is the largest charter school management company in the nation with at least 133 schools and rumor has it that we'll see be seeing them here in Connecticut in the months to come.

Sources close to Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor report that the Charter School loving Commissioner of Education has committed to give Hartford's Clark Elementary School to Friendship Charter Schools Inc., a major charter school management company based in Washington, D.C.

Flush with public funds, this private non-profit corporation has even started a new charter school management company called FUSE, Inc..

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.»

The application reveals the unseemly and bizarre connection between the Booker T. Washington Charter School, the charter school management company known as Jumoke / FUSE Inc. and the Varick Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

It would seem that the group, set up by the charter school management company Achievement First, doesn't have a problem misleading reporters and legislators and it definitely wants people to read their press release and not take a look at the survey results.

Sackler also created 50 CAN, a national charter school advocacy group and Sackler was a major financial backer and advocate for Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company formed by Stefan Pryor, Malloy's former commissioner of and his associate, Dacia Toll, who now serves as the CEO of Achievement First, Inc..

«CPS [Capital Preparatory Schools Inc. which is Perry's private charter school management company] is designed to be a fiscally fit «boutique» charter management organization («CMO»)....

For - profit providers of educational products and services, including members of the Education Industry Association, whether school management companies, tutoring providers, or developers of learning materials and technologies, view students, parents, school districts, and state departments of education as customers.

In only five years, SDP has grown from having a handful of partners to 56 worldwide as more and more districts, agencies, nonprofits, and charter school management companies report meaningful results in their local schools thanks to the partnership.

The provision in the technical corrections bill, if adopted, could make it easier for national for - profit charter school management companies like National Heritage Academies (NHA) or Charter Schools USA to also have greater influence on individual charter schools in North Carolina — a move that coincides with an interest by some lawmakers to dramatically increase the presence of national for - profit operators in the state.

The committee was especially concerned about the North Carolina Virtual Academy's proposal given the school's affiliation with the embattled for - profit virtual school management company, K12 Inc..

The timing of this hand - out to another Achievement First Inc. employee is particularly noteworthy since it takes place at the very moment that Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy and Commissioner Pryor are circling the wagons in an attempt to deny any responsibility for the Jumoke Academy / FUSE Charter School Management Company debacle of the past few weeks.

He also successfully defended the for - profit public school management company K12 Inc. against a lawsuit brought by the Chicago Teachers Union.

To implement their plan, one of things Achievement First must do is persuade Connecticut policymakers to adopt education reforms that will favorably position the Charter School Management company so it can expand here in Connecticut.

ConnCAN, the charter group advocacy firm set up by Achievement First, the charter school management company spent a half a million dollars.

Those associated with Achievement First and its related organizations had an opportunity to share their concerns with the one legislator who had the power to derail the issues that ConnCAN and the charter school management company wanted to see addressed.

Grim says staff were pleased to hear the district had avoided takeover by outside school management companies.

Public funding for charter schools skyrocketed as a result of Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor's policies over the last three years, with Pryor's charter school management company receiving the lions» share of the money.

has been among the most vocal supporters of Steve Perry, the would - be charter school management company operator who is relying on Governor Malloy to force the Connecticut General Assembly to fund Perry's plan to open a privately owned, but publicly funded charter school in Bridgeport.

Listen carefully and you may hear that sound of charter school management company executives rubbing their hands together in anticipation of tomorrow's Connecticut State Board of Education meeting.

The organization not only lobbies for more charter schools but helps private charter school management companies develop applications to get public funds.

As importantly, Comer's position as the COO of a major charter school management company surrounds her with what can only be called a perceived conflict of interest.

For example, a 2014 Huffington Post article provocatively entitled, «Why is this Charter School Management Company Still in Business?

readers now appreciate, Connecticut's charter schools, and especially Achievement First, Inc., the large charter school management company co-founded by Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, actively allow, if not promote segregation.

The same Andrea Comer who was appointed to the State Board of Education by Governor Malloy in the Spring of 2013, despite the obvious conflict of interest between working as an officer for a charter school management company with state contracts and serving on the board that sets state policies concerning charter schools.

The legislators were dupes, if not outright tools, in approving a Commissioner with NO educational background, no certification, no understanding of children — and only a background in founding a charter school management company for privatizing public education.

Re-cap: Deal to give entrepreneur - principal Steve Perry his own school management company at public expense.

Tribune looks at charter school management companies in Utah.

Achievement First, of course, being the charter school management company founded by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.

readers will recall, first came the effort to hand Hartford's Clark Elementary School over to Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company formed by Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor.