EducRats Privatize education
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EDUCATION REFORM IS A BRANDand part of the Value Chain.
The whole "Education Value Chain"
exceeds 600 Billion Dollars
of your tax money
The one thing the Politicians can agree on is how to make money by selling out public education (OUR COMMONWEALTH) to private industry (their friends).
Why Trump's Education Pick Won't Be Able to Privatize U.S. Schools
The EducRATS
SOONER OR LATER EVERYONE WORKS FOR GATES.
How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution
Academic and classroom markets are profoundly different than business and workplace markets. Employers most want the people who have the skills they need, and don't care about the degree. Corrupt Globalized Corporate Greed has eviscerated the commonwealth and the middle class.
COLLEGE
Money is not the only thing keeping first-generation students
from seeking degrees.
All Norwegians have the same
tuition-free access to college
, no matter what their backgrounds. Every student gets the same
allowance for living expenses. Even though tuition is almost
completely free here, Norwegians whose parents did not go to
college are just as unlikely to go themselves as Americans whose
parents did not go to college.
Even though it's essentially free — only 14 percent of children
from the least-educated families in Norway go to college
, compared to 58 percent of children from the most-educated
families, according to an
analysis
.
Fully 1/3 of 5 - to 17 year olds in the U.S have parents who did
not go to college. Only 13% of children of parents without
higher educations end up getting degrees themselves.
Children of parents who didn't go to college don't go to college
themselves.
Virtual schools as a whole are often cited for poor academic performance.
A 2015 national study found that students in these schools who receive no instruction from an “in-person teacher” showed academic results in math equivalent of what would be expected if a student skipped 180 days of school. The deficiency in reading was reported to be the equivalent of 72 days of school. Virtual charter schools, which collectively receive more than $1 billion in taxpayer money each year, are rarely shut down.
Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as his nominee for education secretary . Her husband, Dick DeVos, listed on a financial disclosure form in 2006 that he and his wife owned K12 stock. The nonprofit organization she runs, the American Federation for Children, lists K12 on its website among organizations that support school choice. Enrollment at the schools K12 manages almost quadrupled from 2008 through 2015. California's online charter schools — run by K12 — have “a dismal record of academic achievement” but have won more than $310 million in state funding over the past dozen years.
K12 is a member of the American Exchange Legislative Council, known as ALEC , a controversial group that advances model legislation about numerous issues, including at least 139 bills to promote private for-profit education models since 2013.
Virtual school operator K12 Inc. faces challenge from
stockholders demanding transparency
.
Virginia-based K12 Inc. is the largest operator of for-profit
charter schools in the country and is a national leader in running
online full-time public schools in numerous states. The company
should be required to publicly disclose details about its lobbying
efforts in various states.
{“K12 Inc.runs effective lobbying efforts in more than 20
states”}
Natasha Lamb, managing partner at Arjuna Capital, said in a statement: “K12 Inc.would probably get failing marks on its results, but it absolutely flunks when it comes to transparency. K12 is dependent on taxpayer dollars, yet there is neither transparency nor accountability to taxpayers, students, or investors . The academic outcomes are troubling, and investor returns have suffered. Shareholders need to understand how K12 Inc is using investor dollars to lobby for what appears to be a failing business model.”
The full text of the
Arjuna Capital shareholder resolution
.
The new shareholder effort is being led by Bertis Downs, a public
school advocate in Athens, Ga., who spent his career providing
legal counsel and managing the rock group R.E.M., and who bought
K12 stock a few years ago. Asked why he is taking this action,
Downs said in an email: My motivation in filing for this
disclosure of K-12's lobbying activities stems from my overall
curiosity and interest as a parent and a shareholder in knowing
more about what lobbying is done, whether through ALEC or
directly, that leads to the so-called “education reform” laws
being passed all over the country.
How much does the company spend and how do they spend it and what
results do they get for it? And is any of that good for meaningful
teaching and learning in our schools? And is it good for the
company and its shareholders?
Arjuna Capital shareholder resolution asks that K12 prepare an
annual report showing: Company policy and procedures governing
lobbying, both direct and indirect, and grass-roots lobbying
communications. Payments by K12 used for (a) direct or indirect
lobbying or (b) grass-roots lobbying communications, in each case
including the amount of the payment and the recipient. K12's
membership in and payments to any tax-exempt organization that
writes and endorses model legislation. Description of the
decision-making process and oversight by management and the board
for making lobbying payments.
Best overview of the Moneychangers in the K12 Temple of
Education I've read
.
This article does well in documenting the present state of
American education. I can't help but draw some comparisons to a
previous event in American history.
I'm referring to the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892 in Homestead,
Penn. Financial giant of the day, Andrew Carnegie, used his
significant corporate influence to not only lock-out several
thousand workers, but he succeeded in breaking the union at the
same time. How was this accomplished? When initial efforts to
funnel in "Pinkerton detectives" to take over the fenced-in plant
failed, Carnegie got the governor of Pennsylvania to bring in
8,000 state militia to effectively do all the dirty work for him.
New non-union workers in, old union workers out.
10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America by Steven M. Gillon
is the book that highlighted the
Homestead strike
as one of its ten events. In his epilogue about the event, the
author notes
"Workers believed it was the responsibility of government to protect community standards and quality of life. Management believed that government should enforce the property rights of business leaders like Andrew Carnegie. The state's response to Homestead clearly established that Carnegie's rights clearly outweighed the general rights of any residents of Homestead. Any hope of creating a working class democracy in America died on that bloody July day in Pennsylvania."
No, we haven't had blood in the streets over education reform.
However, the basic idea that money talks and everything (one) else
can take a hike is a constant universal truth. The union busting
tactics facing today's teachers----denuding collective bargaining
rights, ending seniority, merit pay, evaluations based up single
instance testing---just happen to be subtler forms of achieving
the same end Carnegie sought 120 years ago in a different era with
a totally different industry. Unions then and now were an
impediment to corporate profits.
The key
in the C&L article is the author's reference to AEI's Rick
Hess's comments about the
five or six year window of opportunity
while states and localities are struggling to deal with school
funding. Schools have found it next to impossible to free
themselves from federal dependency for a mere 8 to 10% of their
funds over the past several decades. Now facing budgets losses of
20% or more due to state cut backs,
the Carnegies of our time (Gates, Walton, Koch)
can spin their magic. People will listen, and many people will
demand their presence at the table because of what they
bring----capital. ~ Max Fischer
Higher Education University Inc. Campus Commercialization and The CEO Salary Explained. Executive Compensation The Million-Dollar President, Soon to Be Commonplace.
The University of Virginia
Teresa Sullivan fired from UVA: What happens when universities are run by robber barons . - Slate Magazine
The University of Virginia
appears to be part and parcel of the continuing corporatization of
American higher education, one of the two great outside forces
remaking academia at the moment (the other is the
standards-ization imposed by federal and states government). The
wedge through which this pressure comes is the increasing reliance
on donor money of American colleges and universities. That money
comes largely from successful alums, with those in business the
dominant voice. Many of those donors want to bring the lessons of
business to the world of academia and, with their millions, can
frequently insist on it.
This process is helped by the cultural obsession with the
market that infuses the US. “Market forces” are a supreme
adjudicator for Americans, both ordinary and elite alike: “The
Market as God,” as Harvey Cox put it.
There are few institutions, organizations, or people in America
who can escape being subject to the cold breath of market
discipline at some time or another.
UVa Professor Bill Wulf Resigns
Professor Bill Wulf says the Board of Visitors has gone too far
and continues to ignore the cries from the faculty. He says
resigning is a direct result of their actions.
The Corporatization of U.Va.
Excerpt:
Reporters in Charlottesville and at the Washington Post have done
a great job of covering the scandal, and you should read their
work for a fuller picture of what's going on at the University of
Virginia. What they found is that--far from incompetence or
mismanagement--Sullivan's sin was that she acted as a university
administrator and not as a business person. As reported by the
Post, one of the complaints was that she refused to cut "obscure"
and low-revenue programs like Classics and German, and rejected a
plan to bring online education to the university. In general, her
opponents felt that she was too incremental, too ensconced in
academic culture, and too unwilling to bring top-down,
corporate-style governance to the university. And so, in the quest
for dramatic "change," Dragas had her removed.
For as much as this has been described as "remarkable" and
"unprecedented," I can't help but see it as the microcosm of a
dynamic playing out in our politics and across our public
institutions. The constant denigration of government and public
service, coupled with the often unjustified veneration of
business, has led to a world where successful capitalists are
privileged in all discussions. In an earlier time, we understood
that the values and priorities of the market weren't universally
applicable; of course you wouldn't run a university like a
business. It has different goals, serves different constituencies,
and more important, has a broad obligation to serve the public.
Little Rock AK
In Little Rock, the state is acting with the Waltons and Tea Party
types, and managed to take over the third largest school district.
They promptly eliminated the union and set back the teaching
environment several decades. The largest newspaper is part of the
Powerful People, so the letter below was published in a free paper
called Arkansas Times.
Unjust Union Busting
Some powerful people busted PACT, one of the state's largest
education unions. The union drew the ire of a fundamental few for
offering teachers a defense against arbitrary dismissal, and
fighting for such things as pay for extra duty, livable salaries,
safe, clean working conditions, flexible leave, competitive
insurance coverage and a host of other things. All the good that
the union achieved through expensive struggles will be taken away
at the whim of the powerful few.
The expenses of the union in the fight for better conditions were
paid from the pockets of teachers. The administration used tax
money by the buckets to fight the union and keep teachers in their
submissive places. The current action against teachers is taken
under the guise of fixing a district in financial distress.
The deadly blow to most of the teachers in Pulaski County has the
backing of the state Education Department and minions of
single-minded supporters. The reason "most" instead of "all" was
used in the previous sentence is that the other side has enlisted
some teachers as rubber stamps. Those teachers form a committee
that interacts with the administration in decisions affecting the
district. They were selected in a contrived election about as fair
as what takes place in some third-world communist countries. Just
like those countries, the powerful few delight in using
unsuspecting members of the working class to do their dirty work.
Please understand that the better working conditions achieved by
the union were not the cause of the Pulaski County School District
financial woes, but rather the money troubles resulted from abuse
and poor management of the administration. Much of this wrongful
mismanagement was described in newspapers and on television news
because concerned citizens and the union brought it out in the
open. It is doubtful that all the wrongs have been made public.
Watch for the budget reports of the Pulaski County School District
because there is a good reason to believe that it will end the
year with millions in surplus.
If that happens, then the teachers will have lost their right to
fairly bargain because of a ruse tactfully planted by the powerful
few. Teachers will now work in deplorable conditions, but most
will continue to do their best because that is the nature of a
teacher. It is a shame there is no way for the powerful few to
spend a few weeks in the classroom because if that happened, their
adversarial attitude would assuredly change, or at least they
would be considerably more charitable. Do not believe them
qualified to care if some reminisce about previous classroom
experience. They have not been in a current classroom for any
length of time and most could not tolerate the present conditions
because they are not teachers. ~ Richard Emmel
educ RATS
CONTROL The intersection between Government (Dept. of Ed), Politicians, their friends, Global Corporate Media, and Global Industry:
2010 Revenue multiples in the Education Industry continued their
strong upward trend, rising 38% to 1.8, which represents a 200%
growth from the low of 0.6 in 1st Half 2009.
Remember corporate greed brought you slavery, sweatshops and
ghettos -
Organized Labor brought you the weekend, health care, and
retirement benefits.
EDUCRATS: EDU RATS
EDUCRATS In his 1905 dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly the future Dean of Education at Stanford wrote that schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products... manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
Wall Street Meltdown - America is suffering in a Depression. The only sure source of money is FROM THE TAX PAYER VIA GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS OR GRANTS. Corporations donate money to the politicians campaign, they are elected, and the Corporate lobbyists get their financial pay back .
WHERE ARE THE ETHICS?
Culture of Corruption and Cheating Politicians
make money off of the business of education and get away huge
profits from the tax payer without educating anyone. (AASA) The
American Association of School Administrators released a code of
ethical conduct .
THE EDUCRATS
FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION INC.
The Department of Education are the political appointments the
former business CEO's, Economists, Policy Wonks and EDUCRATS
who write the checks that finance the politicians who can
award the tax payers money to their business to produce the
"products" that Industry wants.
The EducRATS from Wall Street, University, Government Stories are used to market " reform " creating a customer - driven education system to buy education vendor products.
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? By PAUL KRUGMAN 9/2/09
EducRATS chasing slave labor around the world so who needs training when there are no jobs, right? Education is really only for the Elites. WHO'S YOUR DADDY
SCHOOL DEFORM AND NO FEDERAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Media - Business Journalists are cozy with Wall Street and
Government, so they don't report the truth.
Public Institutions and Agencies Weaken the Trust of the
Public.
Media Literacy: These gigantic media corporations are not
going to do anything to threaten their relationships with
their biggest advertisers and are always going to express the
ideological viewpoints of their owners.
The Richest 1% "The Mores of Commerce"
Educators, believe in creativity and focus on what the myriad wonders that students can learn. Educrats care about making money, not about educating anyone.
Who Are The Educates?
The players who set
k12 Education Policy.
They are the Same Foundations during 1920, 1950, and now in 2010
are involved with launching the Department of Education Foundation
Registry i3 funding incubators. In politics, money talks when
large amounts are given to campaign funds.
The Department of Education is run by whoever the President
wants to annoint and appoint.
Citizens don't vote for these people. The person selected is
always about business, research, collecting data, tests, and who
to give money too. People who work there are University trained
accountants, economists, and people who have owned education
businesses. It is not run by teachers. They want to "study"
everything and decide where to spend the money, and who to give
the money to, nothing about any of this is related to the
education of children. It is easy to see all the data they spend
their careers collecting at the
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
. If you ever want to understand what's wrong with the Department
of Education all you need to do is look at this website.
The Players
EDUCRATS
Gates: $37 billion, Rockefeller, Harris, Carneige, Ford,
Robertson, Wallace, Walton,
Milken
(he's been involved with government programs/Scams before
)
In a paper by Angela C. Siqueira presented to the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society called "The World Bank New Discourse and the 1999 Education Strategy" , secret documentation is examined that already describes global education policies that will be applied to education initiatives around the world that eerily predict the form and deployment of NCLB in America.
MONEY CHANGERS USE FOUNDATIONS
Earhart Foundation
Their secrete money promotes their agenda.
In a 2004 article for
Philanthropy
, a journal published by the conservative
Philanthropy Roundtable
, Martin Davis highlights the foundation's support for economists:
"For economists, one pinnacle stands above all others — the Nobel Prize" .
FINANCIAL LITERACY
There is a very thin line between an Economist and a Criminal.
Standardized tests
- nobody knows how to write standardized, machine-scoreable test
questions that say how well a kid can think. Nobody. A nation of
good test-takers is not necessarily a well-educated nation. The
human brain doesn't make sense of experience by clicking between
school subjects. In the real world, everything connects to
everything, and the connections are at least as important as the
facts being connected.
The public core of what being a citizen of democracy is should be
decided by us. Not decided by the Rich educRATS who endow the
University gravy train, or the government program who is lobbyied
by the connected, and feeds private enterprise: but a citizen-led
discussion about the common purposes of education in a democracy.
2010 Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
American Historical Association now carries out the 1920's
Carnegie Foundation
goals that will change how history is taught in America.
In 1954 the Reece Committee,chaired by Carroll B. Reece,
produced its findings regarding the influence of tax-exempt
foundations in the field of education
.*
The report also briefly mentions their influence in politics,
propaganda, social sciences and international affairs.
The Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation
and others were discussed during the Committee hearings. Programs
of social engineering designed to acclimate the people to
globalist policy and goals, combined with pushes for global
governance have been pushed on the American people for almost 100
years.
2010 JPMorgan Chase & Co . has announced a $325 million effort to support the building, expansion, and renovation of charter schools , $50 million to community-development institutions that support charter schools, and $175 million in debt-financing and $100 million in "new markets tax-credit equity" for charters. JPMorgan Chase's plan is a way for the bank to make money from public education rather than provide charity to it. For the $100 million that the bank is providing in "new markets tax-credit equity,"gives JPMorgan a tax credit through a federal program that lets taxpayers receive credits against income taxes for qualified investments in designated community-development entities. The credit for the investor equals 39 percent of the cost of the investment, and is claimed over seven years. Essentially, it amounts to a loan they're making money from the government because they're able to offset these funds with this tax credit.
Daria Hall, Director of K-12 Policy Development at The Education
Trust was Client Services Assistant at
Texas Legislative Council
The Education Trust, 1250 H Street, N.W., Suite 700, Washington,
D.C. 20005 Tel: 202/293-1217 Fax: 202/293-2605
These foundations support the work of The Education Trust:
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
MetLife Foundation
State Farm Companies Foundation
State Farm: Company Grants
State Farm is committed to meeting the needs of communities by
giving in three areas: Safe Neighbors (safety), Strong
Neighborhoods (community development), and Education Excellence
(education). Maximum award: varies. Eligibility: nonprofit,
501(c)3 organizations; Canadian charitable organizations,
educational institutions, and governmental entities. Deadline:
October 31, 2010.
Washington Mutual Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Walter B. Hewlett
Walter S. Johnson Foundation -
Walter S. Johnson III
,
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Hastings/Quillin Fund
The Joyce Foundation
Lumina Foundation for Education
Karen & Christopher Payne Family Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
PRIVATIZE K-12 EDUCATION
1999
controlling the education of students everywhere with a uniform
and politically correct curriculum of compliance and servitude
is obvious to international observers.
Make way for the New World Order that will be governed by an
unelected global elite with their self-created legal framework.
1973 David Rockefeller founded the
Trilateral Commission
: World Shadow Government.
To put it simply, Trilateralists are saying: The people,
governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of
multinational banks and corporations.
Contracts and Federal Spending -- Major Contracting Agency is the Dept. of Education
Commerce without Conscience
ED Industr y
University
Corporation
Media
Congress and President Barack Obama eliminate private banks from the federal student loan program in favor of having the federal government lend directly to students. http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15643819?nclick_check=1
U.S. Department of Education 's $650 million fund to boost education innovation. Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement , said it is easier than ever for schools to use new ideas and products because of increasing Internet connectivity, cheaper technology and the growing use of hard data to measure outcomes. "The shift toward evidence as the currency for education ... will make it a much more rational market," Shelton said. "It will be much easier for entrepreneurs to prove that what they have is what people should be spending time and money on."
The State
PEPPM State Cooperative Purchasing Statutes
Many states have statutes regarding intergovernmental relations or
joint powers agreements that address cooperative purchasing by
public agencies or governmental units. Click on the State
Cooperative Purchasing Statutes link to review such statutes for
your state. (800) 636-3779.
The Mission:
The Education Market
Take money away from public education, from the commons, and send
the Tax Payers money to the University who owns the incubator and
a piece of whatever the education entrepreneur develops within
it's walls. Make Money selling technology and products to school
districts.
For-profit colleges and the Education Industry
Public subsidies may provide up to 90% of revenue; the government bears the risk of loan defaults. Online classroom enrolment jumped by 225% between 1998 to 2008, more than seven times the rate for all post-secondary programs. In 2008-09 $24 billion in Pell grants and federal loans went to for-profit colleges. In 2009 the average yearly tuition was about $14,000, compared with $2,500 at a community college.2010 Federal statistics show K-12 schools and degree-granting institutions spend more than $1 trillion on education annually. The K-12 market is fragmented. There are 15,000 school districts with often cumbersome purchasing processes.
Projections of Education Statistics to 2013
GOVERNMENT
ARNE DUNCAN SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STEERS MONEY TO FEDERAL EDUCATION REFORMS DEFORMS
Taxes: The national average is 10.8 percent paid to the state For
every $100 of income received according to data provided by the
U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, in
2007-08. The State then will give some of that money to your State
Department of Education who in turn will give some to every school
district. However if the child stops going to the public and
elects to go to the charter school or virtual school the money
follows the child. It doesn't stay with the school district. The
school district will go bankrupt eventually. All the state money
the commonwealth will go into private bank accounts. This is how
they privatize education.
With less tax revenue, this means that state and local governments
spend less too, even on the most important governmental function
of all — educating our children. According to data provided by the
National Center for Education Statistics, in 2007-08 state and
local governments spent as little as $5 billion supporting some
state's public schools — or $7,683 per pupil. The national average
for that year, though, was $10,297 per pupil. Education funding
averaged 4.15 percent of state personal income.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan said today that they're hiring Jim Shelton named head of education at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he will oversee what could total billions of dollars ...
Feds / Dept. of Ed. Jim Shelton
linkedin
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-shelton/4/4bb/94a
Now working for the President Obama- Dept. of Ed - Office of
Innovation and Improvement. Jim Shelton WAS the assistant deputy
secretary for innovation and improvement, managing a portfolio
that included most of the Department's competitive teacher
quality, school choice and learning technology programs, housed in
the Office of Innovation and Improvement. Shelton has led
education efforts at the Gates Foundation and was president of an
education technology company before signing on to the Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative. Zuckerberg says Shelton will focus on the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's two educational
priorities:technology-enabled personalized learning that allows
K-12 students to learn in their own way and at their own pace and
reaching underserved communities to remove "barriers to success
for the most vulnerable kids," such as poverty and illness.
K12.com connection
Assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement,
managing a
portfolio
that includes most of the Department's competitive
teacher quality
,
school choice
and learning
technology programs
, housed in the Previously, he
served as a program director for the education division of the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
, managing the foundation's national programs and work in the
northeast region of the United States.
Shelton has also been a partner and the East Coast lead for
NewSchools Venture Fund
and co-founded
LearnNow
, a school management company that later was acquired by
Edison Schools
. He spent over four years as a senior management consultant with
McKinsey & Company in Atlanta, Ga., where he advised CEOs and
other executives on issues related to corporate strategy, business
development, organizational design, and operational effectiveness.
Upon leaving McKinsey, he joined
Knowledge Universe, Inc
., where he launched,
acquired and operated education-related businesses
.
EXAMPLE:
Gov't Grant money given to private education business.
Charter Schools Program (CSP)
Grants to Non-State Educational
Agencies for Planning, Program Design, and Implementation and
for Dissemination (Federal Register: July 26, 2010 [CFDA# 84.282B
and 84.282C])
Purpose of Program: The purpose of the CSP is to increase national
understanding of the charter school model and to expand the number
of high-quality charter schools available to students across the
Nation by providing financial assistance for the planning, program
design, and initial implementation of charter schools, and to
evaluate the effects of charter schools, including their effects
on students, student academic achievement, staff, and parents. The
non-State educational agency (non-SEA) grants for planning,
program design, and implementation, and non-SEA grants for
dissemination provide funds for these purposes to eligible
applicants in States in which the SEA does not have an approved
application under the CSP.
Applications Available: July 26, 2010.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: August 25, 2010.
Eligible Applicants: (a) Planning and Initial Implementation
grants (CFDA number 84.282B): Non-SEA eligible applicants in
States with a State statute specifically authorizing the
establishment of charter schools and in which the SEA elects not
to participate in the CSP or does not have an application approved
under the CSP. (b) Dissemination grants (CFDA number 84.282C):
Charter schools, as defined in section 5210(1) of the ESEA, in
States in which the SEA elects not to participate in the CSP or
does not have an application approved under the CSP.
Estimated Available Funds: $3,000,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $140,000-$200,000 per year.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $175,000 per year.
Estimated Number of Awards: 15-21.
Additional information is available online at:
http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2010-3/072610b.htm
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The New Hampshire Department of Education will be getting a federal grant to help expand charter schools in the state. But officials don't know yet how much the grant will be for. The state applied for $11.6 million. Charter schools operate with more organizational flexibility than traditional schools.
Doug Lynch, Vice Dean Graduate School of Education University of
Pennsylvania
All he knows about is how to help Executives make money in
Education
3700 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: 215.573.5022
Email:
dougl@gse.upenn.edu
NEST, for Networking Ed entrepreneurs for Social
Transformation
— would identify promising businesses and give them financial and
logistical support, such as access to capital, work space and
university expertise. Penn, an Ivy League university in
Philadelphia, has already held two summits on education
entrepreneurship and hosted its first business plan competition,
sponsored by the school and the
MILKEN JUNK BOND SCANDAL FAMILY
FOUNDATION
MILKEN AND BUSH TEXAS EDUCATION SCANDAL
.
DOUG WENT TO ASU AND KNOWS JULIA ROSEN
Doug helped start one of the country's first charter schools, the Genesis Academy .
Julia Rosen, associate vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship at Arizona State b SkySong , the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, BUSINESS INCUBATOR over 25 companies from 11 countries. In her new role, she will be responsible for expanding the university's national and international reach, connecting global businesses with SkySong and furthering ASU's ventures. Rosen previously was Manager of Business Development for ASU's technology transfer office , where she launched several new technology transfer initiatives including a "proof-of-concept" investment fund, entrepreneurial education for faculty, investor relations, assistance to startup companies, and community outreach and alliance-building.
Michael Cohen , president of Achieve , total policy wonk - no teaching credentials at all - started on school standards, curriculum, assessments and accountability then on to the Core Standards so that more money can be spent on TESTING . ASSESSMENT
K12.com CHARTER SCHOOLS, VIRTUAL SCHOOLS
Convicted Gambler and former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett
sweeps through the United States with his own business called
K-12.com
Kim Smith co-founder CEO of Bellwether Education Partners
bellwethereducation.org/
Founding team members include Andrew Rotherham, Mary Wells and
Monisha Lozier. Rotherham is the co-founder of
influential independent think tank Education Sector
, as well as one of the most respected national writers and
thought leaders on education reform, as
author of the popular blog Eduwonk.com
who also writes regularly for
U.S. News & World Report
and other publications.
Founder of NewSchools Venture Fund
, which invests in education businesses. The
NewSchools Venture Fund
is a non-profit venture philanthropy fund that invests in
educational entrepreneurship projects at the K-12 levels in United
States public schools.1998 - 2001 $20 million fund that supported
nine organizations, primarily addressing key leverage areas within
the context of standards, accountability and choice. NewSchools
offers expertise and administrative support as well funding, both
through
Charter Acelerator Fund
, which helps establish charter school systems, and through its
Performance Accelerator Fund
, which supports entrepreneurial projects in established school
systems. The organization invests in both not-for-profit and
for-profit organizations, focusing its portfolio on projects that
have the potential to benefit underserved children.
Bill and Melinda Gates
They got $22 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation to help develop additional charter schools
- * Charter Management Organizations (CMOs): aligned nonprofit systems of charter schools
- * School Support Organizations: organizations that provide additional infrastructure to schools to bolster their operational, academic and administrative functions
- * Accountability and Performance Tools: organizations that provide technology tools, formative assessments, and professional development needed to dramatically improve the quality of instruction
- * Human Capital: ventures that promote outstanding teaching, leadership, and entrepreneurial management in our public school systems.
The Automation of Higher Education
(October 1997) by David F. Noble
argues that events at two large North American universities
"signal dramatically that we have entered a new era in higher
education, one which is rapidly drawing the halls of academe into
the age of automation. UCLA has spawned its own for-profit
company, headed by a former UCLA vice chancellor, to peddle online
education (the Home Education Network). ... in Toronto, meanwhile,
the full-time faculty of York University ... ended an historic
two-month strike having secured for the first time anywhere formal
contractual protection against precisely the kind of
administrative action being taken by UCLA."
See First Monday reprint
While faculty concerned about their future employment might be
expected to react unfavorably to inroads by outside commercial
outsourcing providers, there are indications that students at both
UCLA and York were less than enthusiastic as well. For example,
the student handbook distributed annually to all students by the
York Federation of Students contained a warning about the "dangers
of online education." drawing the halls of academe into the age of
automation. In mid- summer the UCLA administration launched its
historic "Instructional Enhancement Initiative" requiring computer
web sites for all of its arts and sciences courses by the start of
the Fall term, the first time that a major university has made
mandatory the use of computer telecommunications technology in the
delivery of higher education. In partnership with several private
corporations (including the
Times Mirror Company
, parent of the Los Angeles Times), moreover, UCLA has spawned its
own for-profit company, headed by a former UCLA vice chancellor,
to peddle online education (the
Home Education Network
).
The education industry, received at least $4 billion in U.S. grants and $20 billion in Department of Education loans in 2009.
Deceptive Marketing by For-Profit Colleges Uncovered by U.S.
Investigation
Senator Harken
Recruiters at U.S.
for-profit colleges lied
to entice students and encouraged them to commit fraud to qualify
for aid,
a report
by the
Government Accountability Office
found. The 30-page report said recruiters at four of the colleges
encouraged fraud on loan applications, without identifying the
institutions. Colleges can be fined as much as $25,000 per
violation and lose their eligibility for government financial aid
if they've been found to lie to students about their programs, the
report said. [
source
]
NYT For-Profit Colleges Mislead Students, Report Finds
[
source
]
Among the schools probed were Apollo Group's (APOL) University
of Phoenix in Arizona
, Corinthian Colleges Inc's (COCO) Everest College in Arizona,
Washington Post Co (WPO) unit Kaplan's Kaplan College in
California and Education Management Corp's (EDMC) Argosy
University in Illinois (EDMC).
The S&P 1500 education services sub industry index
.15GSPEDUS
initially was slightly lower than the overall market at the start
of the hearing, though it recovered later. It was up 0.8 percent
in late morning trading while the overall S&P 500 index .SPX
was up 0.3 percent.
The Career College Association
, which represents mostly for-profit occupational colleges, has
said the GAO report is troubling and vowed to improve training and
standards.
Enrollment in for-profit colleges has grown from about 365,000 students to almost 1.8 million in recent years, according to the GAO report.
Congress will extend between $300 billion and $350 billion in next the 10 years under the Pell grant program for education grants.
HIGHER ED INC.
NOT FOR PROFIT UNIVERSITY
[ Source ] The nation's 4-year not-for-profit colleges and universities collectively held more than $400 billion in endowments in 2008 . As of 2008, most 4-year postsecondary schools in the United States had endowments of less than $100 million, while only 70 had endowments of $1 billion.
FOR PROFIT UNIVERSITY
Apollo Group Inc., based in Phoenix, and Pittsburgh-based Education Management Corp. are among the for-profit colleges that received about $26.5 billion in U.S. government grants and loans in 2009.
USEDU is a market capitalization weighted stock index of for-profit education companies that trade in the U.S. Analysts use Cash Equivalents (CE) as a measure to compare the cash cushion of companies in the same industry.
2016 Apollo Global Management LLC stock soars after buyout offer is hiked.
8/24/16 Apollo private equity advisers to pay $52.7 million to
settle U.S. SEC case
Four private equity funds affiliated with Apollo Global
Management
LLC agree agree to pay $52.7 million to settle charges they misled
fund investors about fees and a loan agreement.
Leon Black, Chairman and CEO Apollo Global Management, LLC, takes
part in Private Equity: Rebalancing Risk session during the
2014 Milken
Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California April 29,
2014.
Apollo Group
has the Highest Level of Cash in the Education Services Industry
(
APOL, DV, CECO, EDU, ESI
)
Apollo Group Inc
.
NASDAQ:APOL
ranks first with CE of $896.39M
DeVry Inc
.
NYSE:DV
ranks second with CE of $501.68M
Career Education Corp.
NASDAQ:CECO
ranks third with CE of $422.17M.
New Oriental Education & Technology
NYSE:EDU
follows with a CE of $281.1M
ITT Educational Services Inc.
(NYSE: ESI) rounds out the top five with a CE of $280.01M.
Corinthian Colleges Inc. (NASDAQ: COCO) Education Management
Corp.(NASDAQ: EDMC)
Corinthian Colleges Inc
. (NASDAQ: COCO)
Counterfeiting of degrees and Consumer Fraud:
For-profit schools saddle students with the highest debt loads in
higher education and the longest odds on actually paying any of it
back. And the bulk of that money comes from taxpayers in the form
of federally subsidized student loans. The University of Phoenix,
for example, reported last year that
86 percent
of its revenue came from federal
Title IV student aid
. It's an investment from which the government gets little in
return when students neither graduate nor repay their debt. And it
subsidizes an educational industry beholden not to students, but
to Wall Street.
Program Integrity; Gainful Employment Proposed Rules
The Apollo Group 's University of Phoenix In 2009 Apollo agreed to pay $78.5m to settle a suit over pay schemes for recruiters.
Kaplan
a for-profit college and a wholly owned subsidiary of
The Post Co.,
( Washington Post NEWSPAPER / MEDIA CORPORATION )
which started out as the
test-prep company
founded by Stanley Kaplan. Grayer grew the company through
acquisition and aggressive management, shifting its focus toward
the
high-profit higher education business
and expanding overseas. This year, Kaplan is on pace to report
revenue of more than $2 billion. Kaplan's third-quarter operating
income grew 36 percent on revenue gains of 17 percent this year,
compared to the same period of 2007.
Capella Education Company , a provider of exclusively online post-secondary education through its wholly owned subsidiary Capella University http://www.capella.edu
"It's easier nowadays to create one edition for one situation and
a different edition for another situation. I don't believe the
Texas curriculum will spread anyplace else." --
Bob Resnick, founder of Education Market Research
, June 1, 2010
The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP)
today approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the
Corporation's common stock. The dividend of $0.235 is payable on
September 10, 2010, to shareholders of record on August 26, 2010.
The McGraw-Hill Companies has paid a dividend each year since 1937
and is one of fewer than 30 companies in the S&P 500 that has
increased its dividend annually for the last 37 years. The
annualized rate of $0.94 per share, which includes a 4.4% increase
approved by the Board in January of 2010, represents an average
compound annual dividend growth rate of 9.9% since 1974.
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/26/2915369/the-mcgraw-hill-companies-declares.html
McGraw-Hill Education
Launches Online Assessment Platform With Unique Speech Recognition
Technology to Accelerate English Language Learning in China
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mcgraw-hill-education-launches-online-assessment-platform-with-unique-speech-recognition-technology-to-accelerate-english-language-learning-in-china-99333524.html
McGraw-Hill, a global information and education corporation
, together with its local partner
ChinaEdu
, announced it has created the
English Online System
(EOS), a pioneering digital platform delivering high quality,
research-based assessments aligned with Chinese New English
Curriculum standards that will serve
China
's middle school students. The new EOS online platform will serve
China
's large and fast-growing education market, estimated to reach
$200 billion
this year.
Penguin Group And Pearson
While Penguin results contributed to Pearson's sales and
profitability, the other publishing wings of the company continue
to drive performance. North American Education remains Pearson's
largest business, with 2009 sales of 2.5bn and operating profit of
403m.
http://www.justmeans.com/Penguin-Group-Pearson-See-Spike-In-First-Half-Sales-Profit/23693.html
National Association of College Stores
(NACS)
, which represents about 1,500 bookstores. Digital text e-book
sales will reach 18.4% by 2014.
Text Book Publishers
Censorship
http://www.dmnews.com/retailers-prep-for-e-book-education-push/article/175435/
MEDIA
The TV, Political, Industrial Complex
Ads are designed to to tell a story. America has the best
Politicians money can buy who can afford to TV ads that will
interrupt their constituency the most amount of times and get them
to care and then vote. Politicians make up a story people want to
hear, they pay to interrupt people with ads, then tell the story
to people who want to hear it. They don't waste their money
telling people who aren't interested. Telling them where to find
out more about it on their website, then asking them for their
email address, which gives them permission to market their message
and tell them anything they want. They got the opportunity to
market their message buy asking permission, using the internet.
The opportunity to be interactive with their public. TV +
Politicians + Social Media are geared to have these conversations
and can promote transparency.
Apple
App Store Volume Purchase Program
for Education 8 /11/ 2010
Apple quietly unveiled a new program for educational institutions.
The program will allow educational institutions to purchase and
download apps from the App Store in volume, and it will also allow
developers to offer volume discounting to those institutions.
Apple positioning iOS devices as an educational tool, seeing iOS
devices, especially the iPad, become more of a player in the
textbook reader market
.
$ EDUCATION inc. $
Dept of Ed + Politicians +
University +
industry +
Media
Berkery Noyes Releases First Half 2010 Education Industry Merger
& Acquisition Trends Report
and compares it with activity in the four previous sixth month
periods from 2008-2009.
Revenue multiples in the Education Industry continued their
strong upward trend, rising 38% to 1.8, which represents a 200%
growth from the low of 0.6 in 1st Half 2009.
Despite strong growth in revenue multiples, transaction volume
decreased for the fifth straight half-year period, falling 14%,
from 86 in 2nd Half 2009 to 74 in 1st Half 2010. Gains in
aggregate deal value had been significant in the past year, but
such growth has ceased and total value has regressed 7% from 2nd
Half 2009.
full report
http://berkerynoyes.com/visit/1stHalfEducationEmailVersion.aspx
Of the top ten transactions by value, four were financially
sponsored: the announced acquisition of SkillSoft plc by Bain
Capital, Advent Intl. Corp., and Berkshire Partners LLC for
$1.06 billion, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's pending
acquisition of Acorn Care & Education Ltd. for $245
million, JLL Partners' pending acquisition of Ross Learning
LLC for $232 million, and Thoma Bravo, LLC's pending
acquisition of PLATO Learning, Inc. for $137 million.
These financially sponsored transactions accounted for just 32% of
the transaction volume, but comprised 82% of total transaction
value within the industry. The lack of strategic and PE backed
acquisitions can be traced back to the Congressional
discussion
of
Title IV of the Higher Education Act, the legislation that
regulates student financial aid programs.
Lawmakers have come to question specific practices within the
higher education model and have proposed a set of rules intended
to prevent abuses of federal financial aid programs by
establishing new eligibility standards both for students and the
colleges they attend.
This regulatory spotlight on the industry has raised many
concerns from investors in the sector and has had a significant
impact on the valuations of publicly traded for profit
institutions and the volume of M&A in the first half of
2010.
In the K-12 sector
, traditional publishers have seen continued softness in their
sector due to the constraints state and local governments have
experienced with their fiscal budgets. Although the states have
benefited from increased funding from the federal government, most
have focused their spending on retaining and compensating
teachers, rather than directing spending on additional
instructional materials for the classrooms, which has negatively
impacted
pure play educational publishers
. However, certain technology and digital education providers have
benefited from an increased
emphasis on data driven decision making
,
TESTING PRODUCTS
which has been the forefront of the current
administration's new legislation called Race to the Top. Experts
believe this part of the education sector will see increased
growth in the coming years which will result in higher volume of
M&A activity.
The Department of Education has put rules in place that would cut off federal aid to schools that are “for-profit” if they have too high a rate of loan defaults or if students do not earn enough after graduation to repay loans. The White House has proposed a formula that takes the debt-to-income ratio of recent graduates and whether students repay their loans on time. The issue here at stake is not whether these institutions get to exist. It is whether they will have mostly the same financial aid access as public and other accredited universities.
9/15/2010 ICF International ( ICFI 23.37 , +0.48 , +2.10% ) , a leading provider of consulting services and technology solutions to government and commercial clients, has been awarded a new four-year, $38 million contract by the U.S. Department of Education to support the department's Race to the Top (RTT) program. ICF will provide technical assistance (TA) support directly to RTT grantees as well as to other education agencies. Specifically, ICF will provide a range of TA support from in-person advisories, trainings, and workshops to a Website that will serve as an information resource for stakeholders. Additionally, ICF will establish learning communities where best practices in education can be shared and RTT grantees can collaborate and build relationships that will sustain positive change in their state education systems. ICF is a leading provider of TA services in the field of education. ICF currently provides TA in multiple regions of the federal government's Head Start program and plays a key role for the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic. The RTT contract continues ICF's focus on applying evidence-based practices to improve education for learners of all ages.
Education is a Business
Big Business
as only Merrill Lynch Research can show.
- Corrupt Department of Education Government Programs designed to funnel money to the politicians' family and friends that cheat the tax payer out of their children's success and the country's commonwealth are caught.
- Failing Reading Scores is good for business.
- Building Prison Cells is the Biggest growing Busine$$ in America with 2.4 million prisoners. The United States has six to twelve times as many incarcerated people as other prosperous democracies, (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom), The prison industry successfully sought more prisoners, longer sentences, and maximal possibilities of probation violations and a swift return to custody. The country has 47 million people with a criminal record, (most for relatively trivial offenses,) and prosecutors won more than 90% of their cases. 90% of Americans judged to require confinement for psychiatric reasons are in the prison system. Conrad Black
- Example of Paige Corruption in Houston Leaving Children Behind
- One quarter of the children do not finish high school which places an enormous burden on the economy, but hey when kid's can't read and there are no jobs, the Privately owned Prison System makes a boat load of money.
-
San Quentin
CA's oldest prison, and the only one that still provides free
college-level education to inmates with the
Prison University Project
.
The project is a private, nonprofit education program that offers about 300 inmates the opportunity to earn an associate of arts degree. The program was launched in the mid-'90s, soon after Congress voted to axe federal funding to higher education in prisons across the country. The university project in San Quentin is the only accredited, free-of-charge higher education program behind California prison walls. Article and Mp3 -
Higher Education Is Overrated Skills Aren't
Harvard blogger Michael Shrage discusses what he calls the
"mythical belief" that higher education invariably leads to the
most successful career path. Education is a
misleading-to-malignant proxy for economic productivity or
performance. Knowledge may be power, but "knowledge from
college" is neither predictor nor guarantor of success. You pay
for future connections. Eduzealots have done a truly awful thing
to serious human capital conversations and analyses around
employment. By vociferously championing higher education as key
to economic success, they've distorted important public policy
debates about how and why people get hired and paid well.
Microsoft's Bill Gates, Dell's Michael Dell, Apple's Steve Jobs,
Oracle's Larry Ellison and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are all
college drop-outs.
Great knowledge is not the same as great skill. Worse yet, decent knowledge doesn't guarantee even decent skills. Unfortunately, educrats and eduzealots behave as if college English degrees mean their recipients can write and that philosophy degrees mean their holders can rigorously think. That's not true.
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jul2010/ca20100730_680104.htm - You Do Need the Best Kindergarten Teacher whose talent benefits all your life.
- STATES Correctional Education Coordinator
The Worker
Jobs in the Future Could Require Less Education, Pay Less
228 Analysis of Wisconsin Employment by Job Title 2002-2012
By Dennis W. Redovich October 2004
The great numbers of high paying jobs of the future that are
claimed to require college graduation and high academic skills for
all high school students are a hoax. The majority of the jobs of
the future in Wisconsin and the United States are low or average
paying jobs that require short term or moderate-term on the job
training and do not require high-level academic skills in any
academic areas, particularly in higher mathematics. Technology
makes jobs simpler not more difficult and makes workers more
productive. The great majority of the jobs of the future are the
same jobs of the 20th Century with new technological tools making
these jobs easier to do. A majority of jobs require only short or
moderate length training or experience. The great majority of jobs
in 2012 require short term on the job training or experience or
moderate length on the job training, experience or education.
http://www.jobseducationwis.org/228%20%20Analysis%2020022012%20Wisconsin%20Employment.doc
A new piece of research
from the National League of Cities, The United Conference of
Mayors, and the National Association of Counties forecasts that
close to 500,000 municipal workers will lose their jobs. Those
worker terminations will take place some time between this fiscal
year and next. Local governments plan to reduce work forces by
8.6% from fiscal 2009 to fiscal 2011. Municipalities and states
operate on mid-year fiscal periods. A deeper look at the survey
numbers shows that most of the cuts will be made in the public
safety and public works areas. That raises the threat of a
significant attrition in law enforcement work forces and employees
who manage and repair infrastructure, particularly roads.