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	RAND Research Brief \| A Decade of Entrepreneurship in Education: A Look at Edison Schools' Improvement Strategies and ...
		Edison’s accountability systems are distinguished from those of conventional public schools primarily by their greater focus on outcomes-based accountability — measured mostly by student achievement and school budget management — and reduced emphasis on bureaucratic and political accountability.
		Edison’s ability to insulate its schools from local politics appears to be greater in its charter schools than in its district schools, as suggested by the longer endurance of its management contracts with charter schools.
		Schools that opened in 2000 or later showed slightly larger relative gains in mathematics than those that opened earlier, but no difference in relative gains between newer and older Edison schools was observed for reading.
	www.rand.org /publications/RB/RB9149 (2463 words)

	Edison spurs controversy, reform in Michigan ... [Michigan Education Report]
		Edison also faced criticism recently in Michigan with the release of a Western Michigan University (WMU) study, funded by the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union and a vocal opponent of charter schools and educational management companies.
		Edison's team designed a school model to serve students, parents, and the community at large by instituting schedules, programs, and technologies that would encourage parental involvement and help connect community groups and resources to families.
		Edison's school design incorporates a number of accountability measures to ensure children are learning basic skills and performing at their potential.
	www.mackinac.org /pubs/mer/article.asp?ID=3412 (1921 words)

	CorpWatch : Student Achievment in Edison Schools: Mixed Results in an Ongoing Enterprise
		Edison's pitch to prospective school districts makes several attractive claims: Its program will raise student achievement for the same per-pupil expenditure as other district schools; provide a longer school day and year; and supply a home computer for the family of nearly every student in an Edison school.
		Magnet schools also can exercise some degree of selectivity, which probably explains the consistent decline in the number of free-lunch students in many of the Edison schools for which we have data.
		Edison should be expected to measure achievement in its schools using the same standards that apply to other schools in the districts where the company operates.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=875 (2686 words)

	Edison schools see drop in scores - Orlando Sentinel : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The three schools are run by Edison Schools Inc., a for-profit company chosen in 2000 by state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick and the state school board.
		The culture of the schools is much better, they say, and parents are pleased with the education their children are getting.
		The schools could become charter schools, be given back to the city or transferred to another entity to operate.
	www.orlandosentinel.com /bal-te.md.edison13jul13,1,926573.story (744 words)

	StarBulletin.com \| News \| /2005/10/13/
		Edison commissioned the five-year study, which tracked changes in standardized tests scores at more than 140 schools managed through its Edison Schools model, under which the company assumes complete operational authority over a school.
		Edison has the largest contract -- at $3.9 million a year -- of three mainland education firms recently hired by the state to "restructure" 20 schools plagued by chronic student underachievement on standardized tests.
		It also noted wide variability in performance at Edison schools, which it said was due to differing levels of commitment to the program, echoing a common defense offered by education firms when the results are disappointing.
	starbulletin.com /2005/10/13/news/story03.html (513 words)

	The Fascist Edison Schools: Brave New Classrooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But the Pennsylvania governor, Mark S. Schweiker, has expressed confidence that Edison can improve a troubled school system, and Edison is said to have the inside track to win two major contracts to help manage the overall system and to operate most of the 100 schools the board wants to transfer to private management.
		Ashley said she enjoyed the Spanish classes that are required of every Edison student and the programming of the school's closed-circuit television station, a fixture of every Edison school.
		So far, Edison has spent tens of millions at its schools on extras like closed-circuit television, as well as on the computers it lends to parents, much to the chagrin of Wall Street, which has grown bearish on a stock that has lost two-thirds of its value in a year.
	www.pipeline.com /~rgibson/edison.htm (1020 words)

	Edison's Falling Grade- ReclaimDemocracy.org
		Edison was built on the premise that a private company could run public schools more effectively and efficiently than local government could.
		A district investigation also found evidence that the school had a habit of "counseling out" students with academic or behavioral difficulties, which is in-line with complaints elsewhere that Edison schools weeded out students who were unlikely to perform well on standardized tests.
		Edison's record has prompted her to set up a web site, www.pasasf.org, and devote hundreds of hours to tracking the company's activities.
	www.reclaimdemocracy.org /weekly_article/edison_failing.html (2663 words)

	frontline: public schools inc.: inside edison's schools \| PBS
		Edison founder and CEO Chris Whittle points to administrative changes as one of the reasons Edison was asked to leave.
		Edison was hired several months later to run the schools, in which less than 10 percent of students had passed the state's basic skills test.
		As in other Edison schools, classes in art, music, physical education and Spanish were offered several times per week and Montebello also offered classes in sign language and drama.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/edison/inside (1155 words)

	Edison Schools Settles SEC Enforcement Action
		Edison failed to accelerate the recognition of $2.4 million in losses relating to agreements with two districts in the first quarter of 2001, when those losses became probable and estimable.
		Edison did not account properly for a liability represented by a severance agreement with a senior officer of the company.
		Edison's inadequate control over the invoicing process and the expenditure of funds by districts results in an inadequate and decentralized accounting system.
	www.sec.gov /news/press/2002-67.htm (758 words)

	Business: Legislators, teachers balk at deal for Edison Schools
		The for-profit school management company with an unprofitable history may be the recipient of $182-million from the state's pension fund.
		Where Edison has run into both political and financial trouble is in its core business of operating schools under contracts with local school boards or charter school boards.
		Researchers at Western Michigan University evaluated student achievement at all Edison schools opened in 1995 and 1996 and found the students' academic progress was about the same as that of comparable students in conventional public schools.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/09/26/Business/Legislators__teachers.shtml (1259 words)

	Edison Schools Keeps Falling
		Shares of Edison Schools (EDSN:Nasdaq - news - commentary - research - analysis) resumed their downward trajectory Thursday after the operator of public schools said it was unable to file its quarterly report on time, citing a recently issued Securities and Exchange Commission order which required adjustments in its financial statements.
		On Tuesday, Edison Schools reported a third-quarter loss of 31 cents a share and announced that an informal SEC inquiry into its accounting would require it to reclassify revenue, mainly related to teacher salaries.
		Edison said that the revenue reclassification would have "no effect on its operating results as originally reported," because it would be lowering expenses by the same amount it was cutting revenue.
	www.thestreet.com /markets/taleofthetape/10022853.html (302 words)

	CorpWatch : US: Edison Awarded Two More Schools
		The 20 schools were considered among the worst performing elementary and middle schools in the city -- many with less than 10 percent of students at grade level -- and the district was seeking ideas on how to improve them.
		Edison, which manages five charter schools in the District of Columbia, has the largest number of Philadelphia schools under its supervision and is the only provider to be offered more by the commission this year.
		Nevels and Richard Barth, Edison's manager in Philadelphia, said that based on a standardized state test, grade-level proficiency in the schools Edison manages has increased from 6 percent to 21 percent of students in the first two years of the contract.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=12267 (1343 words)

	Edison Schools, Inc.: Admin. Proc. Rel. No. 34-45925 / May 14, 2002
		Teachers in Edison schools are generally employees of the districts in which they teach, and, in 40% of Edison's schools, members of bargaining units that have collective bargaining agreements with districts.
		Edison has also concluded that revenues from a fourth district were improperly recorded in fiscal year 2002 because there is no written agreement setting forth the terms, although an oral agreement exists.
		Edison should have accelerated losses relating to two agreements with districts (including District A) because the company expected that over the life of the contracts there would be a total of $2.4 million in losses.
	www.sec.gov /litigation/admin/34-45925.htm (2957 words)

	CNN.com - Pa. system may cut ties with Edison - Oct. 17, 2002
		A year after officials in the city of Chester hired Edison Schools to rescue their troubled school system, the district is considering severing ties with the education firm.
		In a positive development for Edison, the U.S. Department of Education said it has dropped its inquiry into how the company obtained a contract to run 20 low-performing schools in Philadelphia, saying the matter is not a federal issue.
		Edison this year won a five-year, $60 million contract to operate the Philadelphia schools.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/EDUCATION/10/17/edison.schools.ap (414 words)

	WorkingForChange-Edison Schools flirting with disaster
		Edison Schools Inc. is the brainchild of entrepreneur Christopher Whittle who also founded the controversial company Channel One, a classroom television news program complete with commercials geared toward kids.
		Woodward reports that in 2001, Edison was paid $2.7 million by then-governor Tom Ridge to perform an assessment of the Philadelphia schools and "come up with a reform plan." Edison recommended that the state place 45 of the district's "lowest-performing schools," as well as the district offices, in the hands of a private company.
		Edison's plan translated itself into the hiring of inexperienced and lower paid teachers, initiation of a cookie cutter curriculum, the removal of special needs students, and an overemphasis on teaching testing.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?itemid=14103 (1572 words)

	For-Profit U.S. Schools Sell Off Their Textbooks
		Edison, a high-flying firm that was the first school-management company traded on a stock exchange, promised to provide computers, books and new curriculums, and to raise test scores.
		At first, Edison was to take control of them all; later, in the face of political protests, 25 of the schools were put into the hands of non-profit school companies.
		Edison officials were unable to implement some of their more innovative educational policies, including longer school days and years, because of Philadelphia's unions and low budgets.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/1030-02.htm (790 words)

	Public Schools of Edison Township
		The Edison Township School District is a K-12 district centrally located in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
		With a school budget in excess of $135,000,000, we strive to maintain a classroom size under 25 students in a technologically friendly environment.
		The Public Schools of Edison Township continues to provide a challenging and comprehensive education for its students.
	www.edison.k12.nj.us (258 words)

	CNN.com - Edison, Philly schools chief off to rocky start - Oct. 7, 2002
		Since his hiring in July, schools chief Paul Vallas has been quick to veto management decisions by the for-profit company, which was one of several firms and nonprofit groups brought in during the summer to run the partially privatized school district.
		Edison had already cleaned out the office and shipped its files to the Stoddart Fleisher Middle School, where it hoped to relocate.
		Edison plans to find somewhere else for the employees, with the relocation flap having no effect on operations, spokesman Adam Tucker said.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/EDUCATION/10/07/philadelphia.schools.ap (508 words)

	Features - Philadelphia Public School Notebook - Summer 2005
		In offering two more schools to Edison, the Vallas administration gave the controversial for-profit school manager a boost at a time when the company was being buffeted by new scandals and a flurry of contract terminations nationally affecting at least 20 Edison schools.
		Elsewhere, two Michigan districts with clusters of Edison schools, Inkster and Flint, are not renewing their contracts with the company, according to news reports.
		Schools in York, Rochester, Miami, Worcester, MA, and Springfield, IL are also reported to be ending their contracts with Edison.
	www.thenotebook.org /editions/2005/summer/edison.htm (612 words)

	USATODAY.com - For-profit Edison Schools caught in controversies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Despite the overall popularity of charter schools, parents in New York City and San Francisco are embroiled in charter school battles, with Edison Schools Inc. at the center.
		In New York, parents are voting through Friday on a plan to turn five failing public schools into charter schools managed by Edison, the New York-based company that manages 113 public schools serving 57,000 students across the USA and has yet to turn a profit.
		The school board is considering firing the company because of allegations it violated its contract by sending special education students to other campuses, mismanaged employees and manipulated enrollment for gains in test scores.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2001-03-28-edison.htm (348 words)

	No dollars or sense - Edison's Bad Math - Edison Schools Inc - Company Profile Reason - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Last spring Edison was expecting to manage 45 Philadelphia schools this term and play the role of central manager for the city's entire school system.
		Edison sometimes sacrificed key pedagogical components (such as longer school days and more teacher training) to satisfy the unions and school districts.
		An overwhelming majority of those schools are public charter schools, which receive their funding only after attracting students to enroll in their schools.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_7_34/ai_94775367 (514 words)

	Edison scores a much-needed victory \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Edison, a New York-based education management company, is in the third year of a $30-million, five-year contract to manage six elementary schools and a middle school in disadvantaged areas for the Clark County, Nev., School District.
		The elementary schools reported that their math scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills increased by at least six percentile points in every grade, with the fourth-graders making a particularly impressive gain of 12 percentile points, moving from the 30th to the 42nd.
		Her school performed the best of Clark County's Edison schools, enjoying a leap of 17 percentile points in fourth-grade math scores compared with the 2002 results as well as a jump of 14 points in language arts and a three-point increase in reading.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0305/p11s01-legn.html (789 words)

	RAND \| Education \| Project: RAND EVALUATION OF EDISON SCHOOLS
		In the summer of 2000, RAND began an independent evaluation of Edison Schools, examining student achievement outcomes as well as the implementation of Edison's academic program in a variety of its schools around the country.
		When Edison contracted with RAND, it sought not only an independent evaluation with published results at the conclusion of the study, but also professional review of Edison's annual report on the academic performance of its schools.
		Where possible, for all tests that are part of statewide accountability systems, RAND staff have confirmed that the achievement data reported for Edison's schools are consistent with data from state sources or from test publishers.
	www.rand.org /education/projects/edison.html (337 words)

	RAND \| Monographs \| Inspiration, Perspiration, and Time: Operations and Achievement in Edison Schools
		The best-functioning Edison schools demonstrate the promise inherent in Edison’s model, but this monograph reports considerable variation in the extent to which the schools realize the Edison ideal.
		Edison’s average long-term gains are comparable to or better than those of matched conventional public schools.
		Analysis of a number of case-study Edison schools suggests that schools that effectively implement the wide-ranging Edison curriculum, establish Edison’s professional environment, and operate with strong instructional leaders under limited constraints have positive achievement results.
	www.rand.org /pubs/monographs/MG351/index.html (784 words)

	Edison Schools News
		In 2002, the Philadelphia School District embarked on the nation's largest experiment in private management of public schools, with educators across the country watching.
		The Perry Township School Board voted Monday night to renew its contract with Edison Schools to operate Jeremiah Gray-Edison and Rosa Parks-Edison elementary schools.
		When one of the largest public school systems in the country is considering privatizing the schools, this is big.
	www.topix.net /com/edsn (621 words)

	Edison International: Community: Matching Gifts
		Edison employees have a proud and independent history of giving and volunteering to improve their communities.
		Edison International supports their efforts by matching employee contributions, often doubling the amount of the donation which tends to have a very positive impact on community nonprofits.
		And we’ve made a difference: in the last six years, Edison has donated $4.5 million to match employee contributions to schools in excess of $5.3 million.
	www.edison.com /community/matching_gifts.asp (293 words)

	Edison Schools Going Under? by Bill Berkowitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Edison Schools Inc. is the brainchild of entrepreneur Christopher Whittle who also founded the controversial company Channel One, a classroom television news program complete with commercials geared toward kids (Channel One is currently owned by K-III Communications, Inc., a property of Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts).
		Edison’s plan translated into the hiring of inexperienced and lower paid teachers, initiation of a cookie cutter curriculum, the removal of special needs students, and an overemphasis on teaching testing.
		As the Mt. Clemens school board was negotiating an end to its seven-year contract with Edison, Watkins told local school boards or colleges that they may have to consider dissolving their Edison-run schools.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /Jan2003/berkowitz0103.shtml (1343 words)

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