Report card mixed on Edison performance in southern Nevada
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Posted 3:46PM on Thursday, November 21, 2002
LAS VEGAS - Edison Schools Incorporated, which lost a contract with Macon, Georgia, has produced mixed results after 19 months managing seven Las Vegas area campuses, according to a Clark County school administrator. <br>
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Deputy Superintendent Agustin Orci told Nevada state lawmakers that parents seem to approve of the nation's largest for-profit school management company, but said statewide basic student skills test results aren't in yet. <br>
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He said test results will be used to gauge the performance of the New York-based for-profit company, which has three-and-one-half more years on a $30 million contract at the nation's sixth-largest school district. <br>
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Edison has wobbled financially in the past year, and lost contracts to manage schools in Boston; Dallas; Minneapolis; Macon; San Antonio, Texas; Trenton, New Jersey and Mount Clemens, Michigan.