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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Contracting out to Sodexo for lunch is not the same as skimming $2 million off to send to shareholders in Arizona.

A non-profit is given X amount of money and told to do the most with it as possible. The more they get out of it the more successful they are. If they waste the money too egregiously, and fail to deliver the product and instead just funnel the money to the people who run the program, it's literally a federal crime.

BASIS is given X amount of money and told to take as much for themselves while providing the minimum amount of service they can get away with. Maybe that's still a high level of service—certainly some people who go through BASIS are happy—but the incentive is to NOT spend extra money that is not required to be spent. That's how a business works. If the people who run BASIS send the money to the people who run the program, it's not a federal crime, it's not even a bad thing, it's the point of the system.

Non-profits and public school education can be flawed, and when they are flawed they can be fixed and should be fixed—and we DO have SOME good public and non-profit charter schools in DC. But whether they're good or bad, flawed or not, wasteful or efficient, with a non-profit or a public school, you know that the INTENDED purpose of the institution is only to educated children. At BASIS the INTENDED purpose of the institution is to turn a profit, and to the degree that educating some children helps achieve that, they will do it. But that's not the point of the school. [/quote]

Provide a source for that.

Oh, right, you are just making stuff up.[/quote]

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