Sentences with phrase «schools at a profit»

I can't name a single thing in a classroom, from smart boards and textbooks to juice boxes and No. 2 pencils, that isn't sold to schools at a profit.

Edison, which tried to run public schools at a profit, faltered.

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They contended that the school used high - pressure sales tactics to enroll students in the costly classes, promised extensive one - on - one instruction that did not materialize and employed «mentors» who at times recommended investments from which they stood to profit.

Quoting Smith's earlier comments, delivered at the University of Georgia business school in August, Warren, an outspoken consumer watchdog, accused him of not only injuring Americans affected by the Equifax breach, but of profiting off their plight.

Eduventures says about one million students are enrolled in degree - granting online programs this year at both traditional schools and at for - profit programs such as the University of Phoenix.

Lynn A. Stout, professor of corporate and business law at the Cornell Law School, notes that there is no legal duty to maximize profits.

These bright kids were part of a special program that took them from this editing class right to a copy - editing job at the Missourian newspaper, a for - profit rag owned by the school.

Students who complete their degrees as well as master's degree recipients at for - profit schools tend to have better outcomes and positive earning effects post-graduation.

Tuition and fees at for - profit colleges averaged over $ 15,000 for the 2013 - 2014 school year versus about $ 8,900 for in - state tuition at a four - year public college, according to the College Board.

He is an active trustee on several not - for - profit boards, including the California Academy of Sciences, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Friends of Mathematics at Harvard University, San Francisco Film Society, and The Hamlin School.

In his free time, Brent teaches for - profit, social entrepreneurship to low - income, at - risk high school students in the Los Angeles & Bay Areas.

Delicious and healthy meals are served up to the children at the start of week by not - for - profit school meal provider Food for Thought, which works with 17 schools in Merseyside, including two Surestart centres.

It's good to someone: the schools who hide for - profit businesses behind the byzantine code of amateurism, the executives at the NCAA who collect six - figure paychecks for eating lunch for a living, and for the basketball programs taking their cut of the NCAA's sale of March Madness.

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals... Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

As the executive chef at Revolution Foods, a fast - growing for - profit company that caters healthy breakfasts and lunches to mostly lower - income schools, Klein has gone from feeding a few hundred kids in 2006 to about 30,000 today.

Schools have expressed concerns about losing profits, though the bill would allow soda and junk food snacks to be sold after school at events such as football games.

The popular wisdom at the time was if a school stopped serving these empty - calorie foods, the cafeteria would lose money and the district wouldn't be able to make up for the gap in federal funding with those profits.

Worse, my children's previous elementary school once promoted «family dinner night» at McDonalds, where the energetic teachers donned aprons and served fast food to the kids and their families to collect 10 % of profits from every transaction that night.

At the end of the day, the school would see a profit of more than $ 33,000 thanks to federal reimbursements and about 720 kids will have better access to the food they need to grow and thrive.

«This bill only does one thing: It helps for - profit schools,» said Yan Cao, a fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank.

When a student leaves a public school and enrolls at a for profit school all the money goes with that student.

Maple Street Charter School, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in ASchool, the for - profit charter school hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Aschool hoping to open in Rochester next year, has paid tens of thousands of dollars to a lobbying firm at the center of a rapidly expanding federal investigation into improper influence in Albany.

Mr Gove tried to skate over suggestions that Nick Clegg prevented him allowing free schools to make a profit in the state system, with advance reports suggesting the deputy prime minister will claim credit for the rearguard defence at a speech to parents and teachers tomorrow.

The great public institutions like Kings College, the Government Colleges at Umuahia, Ibadan, Zaria or Ughelli — once the great national pride of Nigeria — are as a result underfunded and abandoned, so that the private, for profit secondary schools, may now thrive.

If it was a profit, tell us it was a profit,» asked Paladino at a Joint Schools meeting Monday at City Hall.

NYSUT spokesman Carl Korn hit back at StudentsFirstNY on Wednesday, arguing the pro-charter school organization was bankrolled by hedge fund managers who seek to privatize public education for a profit.

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 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 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 -School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

The introduction of Free Schools should chip away at this monopoly - but the reform is too timid by not allowing new suppliers to make a profit.

For Hope Hart, Syngenta's product safety team leader, the company's commitment to social responsibility reinforces her volunteer work at local schools or community groups where she discusses the safety of GM crops or how they help increase small - farm — holders» profits.

At one time, the country had only one for - profit medical school: the Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic (D.O. - granting) Medicine in Colorado, which opened in 2007.

A Better Alternative to For - Profit College TIME, 9/16/16 «Students often «don't understand the burden they are taking on,» says economist David Deming, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

Take orders for the posters — which you can sell at $ 5 a pop — and keep the profits for school programs.

[xviii] Jason Delisle (2015), «Don't Just Blame For - Profit Colleges for Exploding Grad School Debt,» Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasondelisle/2015/08/03/grad-school-debt/#56d1c5536fe0; Cumulative graduate loan debt for currently enrolled graduate students is $ 23,000 for enrollees at public institutions, $ 33,000 for those at for - profit institutions, and $ 36,000 for those at private not - for - prProfit Colleges for Exploding Grad School Debt,» Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasondelisle/2015/08/03/grad-school-debt/#56d1c5536fe0; Cumulative graduate loan debt for currently enrolled graduate students is $ 23,000 for enrollees at public institutions, $ 33,000 for those at for - profit institutions, and $ 36,000 for those at private not - for - prprofit institutions, and $ 36,000 for those at private not - for - profits.

students who wish to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether nonprofit or for - profit, by providing important tools and services to schools and districts, will develop a much deeper understanding of the systems and processes that exist in K — 12 education that they want to improve or replace, and are better at finding points of leverage that will make a big difference for educators and students.

A study by Matt Chingos and Paul Peterson that was published in Ed Next in 2009 looked at what happened when for - profit firms, including Edison Schools, were given control of some public schools in PhiladSchools, were given control of some public schools in Philadschools in Philadelphia.

98, assistant director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University, recently coauthored a report on the for - profit educational management industry under the supervision of Alex Molnar, a nationally recognized opponent of commercialization in schools.

Lastly, take a look at the types of organizations with which HGSE is partnering; these school systems, nonprofit organizations, mission - based for - profit organizations, and government agencies are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in preK - 12 education.

The problem for entrepreneurs is that for - profit schools compete at a disadvantage against not only public schools but many nonprofit schools as well.

That does not automatically mean, however, that 3) the black - white debt gap is exacerbated due to greater enrollment in for - profit graduate schools among blacks or that borrowing at for - profit graduate schools has a lower payoff than at other schools.

But why imply that black students would be better off not going to graduate school at all rather than a for - profit school if a lack of good data means we can't determine which is the better choice?

Studies show that after adjusting for student characteristics, the for - profit schools achieve at a slightly lower level in Spanish and mathematics than both the municipal and Catholic schools.

Perhaps the explanation is that the debt gap would be smaller if the students who account for the enrollment growth in graduate school among blacks, many of whom attended for - profit universities, had opted not to go to graduate school at all.

Their promise is that their endless quest for new customers will drive them to innovate at a faster pace than not - for - profit and public schools.

A different simulation might assume that the students at for - profit schools all attend private nonprofit universities instead, or that they all attend public universities instead.

The Houston school board is expected this week to consider a proposal to turn over the management of the instructional programs at two elementary schools to a new private, for - profit company.

It's important for policymakers to know that graduate school enrollment is exacerbating the black - white debt gap, but there is at best a weak case for calling out for - profit schools in that trend.

Yes, black students who earn graduate degrees from public universities borrow less than their peers at for - profit schools, but the black students who earn graduate degrees from private nonprofit schools rack up even more debt than their for - profit - going peers, leaving with $ 55,414 on average (see Table 1).

I know of a few for - profit schools at the K — 12 level and more at the preschool level that appear to be marginally profitable.

Why doesn't the debt gap shrink when we assume students who go to for - profit colleges instead enroll at other schools?