One School at a Time, Pa. Company Is Dominating the For-Profit Market
The business plan is simple: Build a network of private preschools and elementary schools. Keep tuition below what more elite private schools charge, thus staying affordable for middle-class families. But offer solid academics, loads of after-school activities, and potential models for the public schools.
That may sound vaguely like the original proposal for the Edison Project. But media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle and his team years ago dropped their idea of building a chain of private schools in favor of operating public schools under contracts or charters from districts and states.
No, this plan belongs to Nobel Education Dynamics Inc., a company based in this Philadelphia suburb that has quietly become the largest for-profit operator of private elementary...
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