For profit or not.A report titled "Is There a Difference Between For-Profit for-prof·it adj. Established or operated with the intention of making a profit: a for-profit organization. Versus Not-For-Profit Not-for-profit An organization established for charitable, humanitarian, or educational purposes that is exempt from some taxes and in which no one in profits or losses. Charter Schools?" has been published by the National Center for the Study of Privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned in Education. It compares student achievement in charter schools operated by for-profit firms with that of not-for-profit charter schools. The study, which accounts for demographic and expenditure differences between schools, analyzes four years of achievement data in Michigan's charter schools, and finds that student achievement in nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. schools is statistically higher than that of charter schools run by private-sector management. A downloadable version is available at www.ncspe.org/list-papers.php. |
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