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Vaughn nonetheless gave the project a green light. The man he entrusted with Wichita's first Edison school was Larrie Reynolds, a veteran principal and music teacher who harbored deep frustrations over the limitations of public education. That attitude is shared by many of the teachers Reynolds recruited for what is now called the Dodge-Edison School. Most are what Reynolds refers to as "flagship educators"--the best of the old system and some of the brightest prospects emerging from graduate school. He lured them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes...
...delivering the Orchard Hills school over to what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference...
...betting on Edison, Vaughn thrust Wichita into the front ranks of a bold and still controversial experiment in privatizing public education. America's first four Edison schools opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new schools later, the debate continues. Despite warnings that privatizing public education is a recipe in which profit takes precedence over learning, the Edison Project is beginning to attract more serious consideration. Most of Edison's schools (25 altogether) are still too new to show definitive results, but initial reports from pioneers...
...true now, it seemed downright ludicrous in 1991, when flamboyant media entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his grand plan to build, by 1996, a nationwide chain of 200 private schools to revitalize American public education--for $2.5 billion. Because Whittle's communications company all but imploded in 1994, the Edison Project was radically scaled back, leaving education experts skeptical, lenders leery--and Larry Vaughn in a precarious position...
Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and the latter's son Russell motored into Plymouth [Vt.] and stopped at the Coolidge farmhouse. The President took them through the local cheese factory, of which his father is part owner, and gave Mr. Ford a sap bucket of pine with ash hoops, capacity 16 quarts, which had been made for and used by John Coolidge, a great-great-grandfather of the President, who died in 1822. Everybody's picture was taken... In a thunderstorm, lightning struck near the Coolidge farmhouse. It got into the headlines... The President at one time...