An inside call to fire 6 school managers / A confidential district study echoed outside reports that privatization has not worked. Contracts are up in June.
Source: By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer (PA), May 20, 2007
None of the six private groups hired to manage 41 Philadelphia public schools - including for-profit Edison Schools Inc. - has shown "sufficient" academic progress, and the district should consider axing them when their contracts expire in June, according to an internal school district report obtained by The Inquirer.
At best, only 14 - about a third - of the schools run by the groups deserve contract renewals, the report said. Those schools met federal targets for academic improvement in 2005, 2006 or both, according to the report.