For-Profit Firm Hired To Manage Schools in Duluth

By Peter Schmidt

The Duluth, Minn., school board last week entered into an unprecedented agreement with a for-profit school-management firm to provide the district with an interim superintendent of schools.

At the same time, officials of Education Alternatives Inc. said in interviews last week that the publicly held, Minneapolis-based firm may be on the verge of assuming responsibility for the operations of several districts around the country.

In Duluth, the school board contracted with the firm to name an employee of Education Alternatives...