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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly a clueless poster....have they ever seen the financials of a private "nonprofit" such as Sidwell?  If they did, they would see enormous bloated salaries.

Do they know about the huge salaries of employees at the DCPS central office or the charter school board?  That money does not filter down to where it would make a difference: the teachers.

Public, private, non profit or for profit schools all pay hefty compensation to administration....they just differ in their tax structures and methods of payment.....wages or profits or management fees...it does not matter, there is huge "waste" in education.  That is part of the reason that throwing more money at school districts has failed over and over again.

[quote=Anonymous]. Opposition to for-profit education is not a "weird troll" or "ignorant" position to take—you wouldn't send your kid to a for-profit college, why would you send them to a for-profit high school, middle school or even, and this is truly mind-boggling, an elementary school. Profit has no place in education. End of story. [/quote][/quote]

+1.  BASIS DC is non-profit as is Basis Charter Schools.  Basis Charter Schools used a for-profit education management organization (that pays salaries similar to what non-profits pay).  Lots of charters use for-profit entities to support their work (e.g., management, accounting, food, maintenance, etc.).

And it obviously works for BASIS--they have many of the top ranked public schools in the whole country.

Given how dismal public education is in DC, other charter networks with schools in DC should consider outsourcing tasks to more competent entities.
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