For-Profit Education
Education
For-Profit Company To Offer High School Diploma Over Internet
Students soon will be able to earn a high school diploma anytime, anywhere, through a for-profit company that has been started by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Budget & Finance
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.
School Choice & Charters
For-Profit School for Dropouts Sparks Turf Battle in Detroit
A suburban school district has opened a for-profit school in downtown Detroit and has recruited dropouts from the city's public schools to enroll in it.
Education
For-Profit Company To Run Hartford Schools
The Hartford, Conn., public school system has turned itself over to a private company. The unprecedented agreement, approved by the Hartford school board in October, entrusts the for-profit, Minneapolis-based company Education Alternatives Inc. with managing the district's 32 schools and its annual budget of some $200 million.
"We are absolutely convinced that the current way of operating our schools does not work and cannot work,'' said Edward Carroll, a school board member who voted for the contract. The agreement, he said, will bring the district "some additional talent and resources and skills.'' He predicted that Hartford's pact with EAI "will be a model for the rest of the country.''
Education
Houston Eyes For-Profit Company To Run School Programs
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.
School & District Management
Opinion
For-Profit Schooling: Where's the Public Good?
Whittle Communications has made headlines and hopes to make history by creating a chain of for-profit schools that offer a "better product."
Education
Duluth Board Ends Ties With For-Profit Management Firm
The Duluth, Minn., school system
has ended its business relationship
with a for-profit school-management
firm that sought to take over
permanent management of the district.
Education
For-Profit Firm Hired To Manage Schools in Duluth
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.
Education
Entrepreneur Whittle Unveils Plans To Create Chain of For-Profit Schools
Chris Whittle, the media innovator who launched the controversial "Channel One" television news program for schools, last week announced plans to develop a nationwide chain of for-profit private schools that will be redesigned from the ground up.
Education
For-Profit Company Seeks Contracts To Run Districts
A for-profit firm whose president is a former Tennessee commissioner of education is promoting itself as "the first American company whose sole goal and purpose is the privatization of the American public education system."
Education
For-Profit Schools Announce Plan To Lower Default Rate on Loans
Washington--Responding to growing pressure from the Education Department to crack down on student-loan defaulters, five groups representing for-profit trade and technical schools last week unveiled a program to boost repayment rates.
Education
Corporations Considering Creation of For-Profit Schools
Citing a climate of "educational renaissance," leaders of some of the nation's best known corporations are weighing the idea of moving into the field of elementary and secondary education as providers, not just supporters.