At 09:01 AM 6/22/2012, Max Sawicky wrote:
>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.
> >
> >
> >
> > At 09:22 PM 6/21/2012, ken hanly wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> Blog:
> http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/**index.html<http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html>
> >>
> Blog:
> http://kencan7.blogspot.com/**index.html<http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html>
> >>
> >>
> >> ______________________________**__
> >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> >> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:04:07 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Historical moment: the first full privatization
> >> of a U.S. public school district
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:56 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> >>
> >> > charters aren't for profit?
> >>
> >> No there are a lot of public and nonprofit charters.
> >> ______________________________**_____
> >>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/**mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk>
> >> ______________________________**_____
> >>
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/**mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > http://cleandraws.com
> > Wear Clean Draws
> > ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a CEO)
> >
> > ______________________________**_____
> >
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/**mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk>
> >
>___________________________________
>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
-- http://cleandraws.com Wear Clean Draws ('coz there's 5 million ways to kill a CEO)