Edison scores a much-needed victory (private companies to run public schools)*** 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.
Comparable elementary schools in the district with similar student profiles also rose, but at a slower pace.***
Its just a company managing a public school. Its still a public school. There is no real competition there, they just try to be more efficient.