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...SALES PITCH WAS DAZZLING, THE promises irresistible. Dilapidated school buildings would be renovated, and fancy computer labs installed. Class size would go down, and test scores up. Less money would be 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...
...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...
...fact, the problems in Hartford could cripple EAI. Because the company agreed to assume all costs of reform up front in return for one half of every dollar it saved the school district, EAI is now out about $10 million, and the company's stock, which has fallen to $7.50 from a historic high of $48.75 in 1993, reflects that loss. EAI's chief operating officer, William Goins, stepped down last week, claiming differences in "leadership styles." Meanwhile, the Hartford Board of Education, which has already wrested back control of 26 out of 32 schools, is so unhappy with...
Only three teams were chosen from the East: UMass, UConn and Hartford. Those teams are joined in the Eastern bracket by Minnesota, Notre Dame and Wisconsin. All but six of the teams which made the tournament had more losses than the Crimson, including Washington (11-7), Vanderbilt (13-7), Kentucky (17-6) and Clemson...
...fact that they did not play any teams like us [No. 13 Hartford and No. 16 UMass, the other two top 20 teams in the Northeast Region] is like putting all your eggs in one basket," Tsantiris said. "[Harvard] is a very good team--they are in the top four in the region, and they still have an outside chance...