Achievement First, Inc.,
the very charter school management company that Stefan Pryor helped to create and lead for the eight years before he became Malloy's Commissioner of Education.
Not exact matches
This matter is particularly important, given that some point to
charter management organizations Green Dot and Mastery as turnaround success stories even though each has a
very short turnaround résumé, in both numbers of
schools and years of experience.
«The Department of Public Instruction has been made
very recently aware of
very serious charges and allegations about an education
management organization connected with two applications before you today,» said the Office of
Charter Schools» Robin Kendall.
States like Arizona where a high percentage of public
schools are
charter schools tend to attract the
charter management organizations because they are
very supportive of those
schools coming in and setting up shop.»
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.
The issue Pryor is referring to is, in fact, the «Commissioner's Network» program — the
very program that would allow him to take over up to 25
schools, fire the staff, ban collective bargaining and turn those
schools over to some other entity, such as a
charter school management firm.
He is a
very active board member and Secretary of the Alliance for College Ready Public
Schools, a charter management organization operating 19 high schools and 9 middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School Di
Schools, a
charter management organization operating 19 high
schools and 9 middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School Di
schools and 9 middle
schools in the Los Angeles Unified School Di
schools in the Los Angeles Unified
School District.
In cases where the company lost the
charter but the
school remained open under different
management,
schools allege that it was «a
very bad divorce.»