Charter success. (Update: education news from schools, business, research and professional organizations).Some financial woes of the for-profit charter school pioneer Edison Schools Edison Schools Inc. is a for-profit company that manages public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992. History Edison Schools was widely hailed at the beginning of the 21st century as the leader in what "school reformers" saw as the gave the industry a bad reputation, but rival National Heritage Academies is succeeding for both its shareholders and its customers--some 17,000 students in 32 schools. The private company is looking to close its third-straight profitable year in June 2003, and this fall will open five new schools with the same back-to-basics approach that stresses parental involvement and moral development, says Mark DeHaan, senior vice president. A rigorous assessment of 22 NHA's scores on Michigan's Educational Assessment Program (MEAP MEAP Manning Early Access Program MEAP Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform MEAP Michigan Education Assessment Program MEAP Maryland Energy Assistance Program MEAP Minority Ethnic Achievement Project (UK) ) found that the longer a student has been at a NHA NHA Nha Trang, Vietnam (airport code) NHA Nantucket Historical Association NHA National Hydrogen Association NHA National Health Accounts NHA National Housing Act (Canada) NHA National Humanities Alliance school, the more likely he or she is to score well on MEAP. For example, 57 percent of fourth graders who had been at a NHA school for less than two years achieved a "satisfactory" score--the highest category--on the MEAP math test, versus 77 percent who had been at a NHA school for more than two years, and 72 percent for the state of Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). . So why is NHA able to succeed in an industry where the one-time leader has struggled so monumentally mon·u·men·tal adj. 1. Of, resembling, or serving as a monument. 2. Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring. 3. ? NHA opens schools in areas where it receives the same amount of per-student reimbursement Reimbursement Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred. dollars as local district schools. The company also only operates K-8 schools and doesn't have the corporate debt load that Edison undertook. "Our growth was regional, slower perhaps. Our investment has always been in real estate rather than in operations," DeHaan says. www.heritageacademies.com |
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