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Joseph P. Keeney has been appointed the president of the charter schools division of Edison Schools Inc.

Mr. Keeney, 41, who has served as a senior executive in Edison's development division since 1997, succeeds Floyd H. Flake, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, who left Edison to serve a one-year term as the president of Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio.

The New York City-based Edison Schools is the nation's largest for-profit manager of public schools, serving approximately 80,000 students in 150 public schools in more than 20 states. Roughly a third of those are charter schools that educate about 24,000...

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