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...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 of the reform board that awarded the contracts. Contesting those claims, Chancellor Beacon points to more than $1.5 million in textbooks...
...including some who say she's being targeted as an uppity woman executive who has made it in a preserve dominated by men. Prosecutors see it differently. "Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did," said James Comey, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The case against her, experts say, will be difficult to prove but could serve as a deterrent in the government's larger effort to curb abuses of corporate power...
...amateur approach. Our conclusion is that we had to professionalize everything?not that we don't want members to get involved, but professionalization is the way to go." To demonstrate this, the LRC recently opened a sports bar as slick as the ones in Hong Kong's Soho district...
...Skinner runs the EPA's Midwestern district, which includes six states from Ohio, west to Illinois and northwest to Minnesota. His relative anonymity, even among liberal beltway EPA watchers, could be a bonus; a blank political slate can trump a documented history. As head of an EPA regional office (and former Illinois EPA chief), Skinner sees to it that states and the companies within them comply with the agency's rules and standards - licensing and inspecting big polluters, and issuing clean-up orders...
...ROOM SERVICE This site won't win any awards for design or funky graphics, but it's probably the most complete list around for the various accommodations available in Umphang district and Tak province...