Report card mixed on Edison performance in southern Nevada

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> <br> Deputy Superintendent Agustin Orci told Nevada state lawmakers that parents seem to approve of the nation&#39;s largest for-profit school management company, but said statewide basic student skills test results aren&#39;t in yet. <br> <br> 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&#39;s sixth-largest school district. <br> <br> 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.

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