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...decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets and will likely have unchecked power in hiring and firing decisions...
Introducing profit-motive into public education by transferring control to corporations like Edison Schools, Inc. threatens to further dilute community power. Decisions by such companies must weigh community input against not only educational goals and budget constraints—as school boards, nonprofit firms and universities would—but also against the impact on its own bottom line. Sometimes that interest runs counter to the quality of education students receive. For example, more costly programs like performing arts do not produce the kind of higher test schools that help for-profit firms sell their product to other districts...
...benefits claimed by Edison and other private managers in terms of academic achievement and efficiency are uncertain at best. What is certain is that by transferring decision-making power into private hands, parents will lose influence over their children’s education. Philadelphia schools are in a terrible state, but privatization is the wrong way to deliver the kind quality education its students deserve...
Danny Devito, Jon Bon Jovi, Calista Flockhart, Bruce Springsteen, Jason Alexander, James Gandolfini, Lauryn Hill (and the other two Fugees) and Thomas Edison are just a few of the notable natives who have made New Jersey the birthplace of fame itself...
...Kamen's personality is half Willy Wonka, the other half is closer to Thomas Edison. While he was still struggling in college, Kamen invented the first drug-infusion pump, which enabled doctors to deliver steady, reliable doses to patients. In the years that followed, he invented the first portable insulin pump, the first portable dialysis machine and an array of heart stents, one of which now resides inside Vice President Dick Cheney. This string of successes established Kamen's reputation, made him wealthy and turned DEKA Research--the R.-and-D. lab he founded nearly 20 years ago, in which...