Sentences with phrase «school management company spent»

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

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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.»

Edison spent a disastrous two years as a public company and now operates 31 charter schools and provides management services to 54 district schools.

Three other corporate education reform industry groups, the Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the Connecticut Council for Education Reform (CCER), and Achievement First, Inc. (the charter school management company with strong ties to the Malloy administration,) have spent nearly $ 100,000 more in recent weeks in a lobbying program designed to persuade legislators that it is good idea for them to cut funding for their own public schools, while increasing the taxpayer subsidy for the privately run charter schools.

Governor Rick Scott and his education advisor, Michelle Rhee, believe that billions of public school dollars are better spent on for - profit charter school management companies (CMOs).

ConnCAN, the charter school advocacy group that was set up by Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company, which was created by Connecticut education commissioner Stefan Pryor and his «education reform» colleagues, now reports that they actually spent half a million dollars in their recent effort to pass the «reform» legislation proposed by Governor Malloy and Commissioner Pryor.

She points me to a recent investigative report by the Detroit Free Press that finds, «It is difficult to know how charter management companies are spending money... Unlike traditional school districts, the management companies usually don't disclose their vendors, contracts, and competitive bid documents.»

In the case of Buffalo United, the auditors found that the school board had little idea about exactly how the company — a large management firm called National Heritage Academies — was spending the school's money.

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.»

Meanwhile, Perry has spent the last few years trying to persuade Hartford officials to hand over existing public schools to a private charter school management company that Perry set up while serving as a public school principal.

The new lobbying entity includes most of the same groups that spent in excess of $ 6 million lobbying for Malloy's initial education reform initiative, including ConnCAN, the Achievement First, Inc. charter school management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group eschool management company, the Northeast Charter School Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group eSchool Network and Families for Excellent Schools, another pro-charter group entity.

And heading up the overall operation, which has spent more than $ 300 million in public funds, Commissioner Stefan Pryor recruited a school principal from Achievement First, Inc. the large charter school management company that Pryor co-founded.

• Some schools have ceded almost total control of their staff and finances to for - profit management companies that decide how the schools» money is spent... • Many management companies also control the land and buildings used by the schools — sometimes collecting more than 25 percent of a school's revenue in lease payments, in addition to management fees... • Charter schools often rely on loans from management companies or other insiders to stay afloat, making charter school governing boards beholden to the managers they oversee...

Before entering law school, John spent several years working in management at a large company, where he set sales performance goals, oversaw a budget and controlled expenses, and served customers and referral sources.