[lbo-talk] Historical moment: the first full privatization of a U.S. public school district

[Max Sawicky]

The original for-profit model I wrote about entailed a company taking over
existing public schools, with the same facilities and personnel (including
teachers). Basically it replaced the management but left everything else.
The deals entailed negotiating with unions. The Edison Project, one of the
original operators, took pains to sweet talk the teachers unions with some
success in the case of the NEA.

Charters referred to organizations or companies building new schools from
scratch, possibly renting facilities formerly housing regular public
schools. Typically they escaped oversight, were subject to less or no
regulation, and were able to take advantage of using younger, lower paid
teachers and other non-union personnel.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:07 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:


>
> what i was trying to understand was why max seemed to be making a
> distinction where there are charters and then there are for profit
> management companies. i am not sure how a for profit charter school company
> is different from a for profit school management company.
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> At 09:22 PM 6/21/2012, ken hanly wrote:
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>>  What about the charter management companies that are bidding to take
>> over the Muskegon schools. I assume they are for profit companies or are
>> the non-profit too?
>>
>> Cheers, ken
>>
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>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:56 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> > charters aren't for profit?
>>
>> No there are a lot of public and nonprofit charters.
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