A carrot for the teacher.(Edison Project Inc., a company which runs public...

U.S. News & World Report;  November 2, 1998 ;   Toch, Thomas;   489 words ...Stock options come to public education; In a striking...a company running public schools for profit launched a stock option plan for its principals, teachers...performance of many public schools: the absence among...traditional and charter public schools ...

Business goes to school: The for-profit corporate drive to run public...

Multinational Monitor;  January 1, 2002 ;   Miner, Barbara;   787 words ......glorious era in education: for-profit, private companies running public schools. South Pointe was run by the for-profit Education Alternatives, Inc. (EM...his company could run public schools for the same amount of...company among the major ...

Public schools face crisis

Baltimore Afro-American;  December 20, 2002 ;     572 words ......Federation of Teachers, warned that public schools were facing extinction. He wrote...numbers of students depart from the public schools to try private and parochial schools, there will be no public schools for them to return to. The public...

GET RID OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.(Editorial)(Column)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  May 17, 2005 ;     713 words ......vouchers nearly always assume that public schools are permanent parts of the American...wonder why. Why should there be any public schools? I don't ask merely because the public schools are performing badly, although (as...

Voucher movement threatens public schools

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  December 1, 1998 ;     787 words ......01-1998 Voucher movement threatens public schools It is hard to understand the movement...least diminish, America's system of public schools. If the movement succeeds, it will...excellence grow from the same seeds -- our public schools. The tired, the poor, and the huddled...

52 applicants seek to create public schools

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 23, 2004 ;   Rosalind Rossi;   175 words ......operator and some for-profit education companies were among...Monday to open new public schools under Mayor Daley...apply to open six public schools -- five of them...be run by Chicago public schools employees.

Bible vs. Board of Education; Evangelicals Increase Call to Pull Kids From...

The Washington Post;  September 17, 2006 ;   David Crary;   787 words ...Public schools take a lot of criticism, but a growing...parents pulling their children out of public schools and exhorting other families to do...courts say no creationism, no prayer in public schools," said Roger Moran, a Winfield, Mo...

Pennsylvania Governor Considers Privatization of Philadelphia Public...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 20, 2001 ;     787 words ......Schools Inc., a controversial for-profit education company, loses money. The...increases the number of public schools it manages. Philadelphia...all of the Philadelphia public schools. The decision could be...takeover of the city's public schools is akin to ...

Vouchers will help public schools.(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  August 28, 2003 ;     502 words ......effect vouchers will have on public schools. Opponents contend that vouchers...drain resources and talent from public schools, hindering their ability to...retain students will provide public schools with an incentive to improve...

MAYBE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL.(Editorial)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  September 24, 1999 ;     685 words ......thought there was national agreement that public schools are in terrible shape, along comes...adults a variety of questions about public schools. The results are on NPR's Web site...one highlight: Nearly 70 percent gave public schools nationally a grade of C, D or F. But...

Public schools respond to school choice

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  March 28, 2004 ;   David Salisbury;   659 words ......choice opponents claim that choice harms public schools. Research, however, shows the opposite...Carolyn Hoxby addresses the question: "Do public schools respond constructively to competition...choice. The fact that choice benefits public schools - not just students who switch to ...

America's public schools under attack

NEA Today;  January 1, 2002 ;   Hess, Mary Anne;   726 words ......on America's public schools. They are under...AGAINST AMERICA'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS-- PRIVATIZING...Bracey admits public schools need reform...many "enemies of public schools" is to dismantle...data to label public schools as "failing...lost charters for ...

Baptist activists again seek exit from public schools

Charleston Gazette;  April 26, 2006 ;   The Associated Press;   534 words ......denomination to remove its children from public schools, two years after a similar action was...to develop an "exit strategy" from public schools is co-sponsored by Texas lawyer Bruce...movement to pull Baptist children out of public schools. They also said that it's wrong for...

IN DEFENSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 9, 1997 ;     404 words ......County, NJ) 03-09-1997 IN DEFENSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS Date: 03-09-1997, Sunday Section: REVIEW...promoting themselves as an alternative to public schools for families seeking a religious learning...400 in property taxes goes to Wanaque Public Schools." Last year based on a house ...

LET'S NOT ABANDON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.(Editorial)(Column)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 12, 2006 ;     680 words ......us to withdraw our children from the public schools and teach them at home. A member of...Baptist Convention, Moran believes that public schools are places where God is ridiculed...many as 1 million students to abandon public schools for homeschooling. If they're successful...