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...water for less than the usual price; people shared cabs in the city and cell phones at the airport, and one theater company moved its performance out onto the street by the light of a pair of parked cars with their high beams on. In Ohio the Akron Beacon Journal printed a special edition of its rival, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, whose editors typed up reporters' notes by flashlight. Modell's sporting-goods company parked two trucks stocked with 2,000 pairs of shoes in Times Square and handed them out to stranded people walking home. In Harlem a group...
...same relief in the morning as I did during high school each time the train winds around the corner in the distance and approaches the station. The sun glints off the shiny, steel hull of the train racing within yards of apartment windows, and turns it into a beacon warning people to ready themselves to board...
...people who were going to roll up their sleeves and get dirty." Instead, Daniels says the company's leaders never held a full staff meeting until May, far too late to make an impact. Although the company set up its Philadelphia offices in their building, Shoemaker teachers say Chancellor Beacon seemed corporate and inaccessible. "I don't see them at all. It was a waste of money," says Glorybelle Marcial, Shaliah's science teacher...
Shoemaker in the fall. Still, for all her daughter's troubles, Tanya is somewhat sympathetic to the challenges Chancellor Beacon faced. "The district expected them to do in months what it hasn't been able to do for decades," she says...
Tanya had taken Shaliah out of a charter school and moved her to Shoemaker last fall, pleased that Chancellor Beacon Academies, a Florida-based for-profit company, was taking over the school. She had reason to be optimistic: Chancellor Beacon charter schools in Florida and New York had performed above the state and national norms. In Philadelphia, however, Chancellor Beacon became the only management company fired by the district. According to Philly schools chief Vallas, the company failed to "create a presence" and didn't provide teacher training, shrink class size or offer after-school programs--all goals...