Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent on the bureaucracy, and more where it counted: on the students. And Hartford's public schools would maybe slowly raise themselves out of the gutter of the Connecticut school system. All this, and more, was hoped for last year when Education Alternatives, Inc. landed a five-year contract to run Hartford's entire 32-school district and its $200 million budget...
...champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami Beach, Florida, expired last June; its nine-school project in Baltimore, Maryland, remains controversial, and its high-stakes deal in Hartford, the largest privatization experiment in the nation, is on the verge of collapse...
...performance that it refuses to allow EAI to manage the school budget and insists that because there have been no savings, there will be no reimbursement of expenses. Unless EAI supporters win three out of the five open seats in this week's school-board election, the company's contract will probably be terminated altogether. Still, EAI chairman and CEO John Golle downplays the trouble. "The press is making this out as Waterloo," he says. "I don't think so at all. School reform is a freight train moving down the track...
...VEHEMENTLY DISAGREE WITH THE title and assertions made in the story "Follow--or Move Over" [CONGRESS, Oct. 23] that suggest Speaker Newt Gingrich wields the political power to give Senator Bob Dole this ultimatum. Granted, Gingrich was the driving force in the Contract with America. Yet no one campaigned harder for change in the "revolution" of last fall's elections than Dole. Moreover, Gingrich does not have as much clout among Republicans as your article claims. Many Republicans question his character, his hypocrisy and his motives. Dole is a seasoned veteran, having served for more than 35 years in Congress...
...This is frankly all about trying to retain positions here because these jobs have been lost to contract [in the past]," Vautin said