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Special ed...for profit? |
| Published: September 9, 2007, 8:02 am |
| Tags: education, elementary school, elementaryschool, high school, highschool, middle school, middleschool, private school, privateschool, public school, publicschool, school, special ed, special education, specialed, specialeducation |
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Filed under: Elementary school, Middle school, High school, Public school, Private schoolThe worlds of for-profit business and education seem almost fundamentally at odds. However, one man has managed to bring special ed services to almost 8,000 students -- and he's making money in the process. Mark Claypool used to be a social worker, but got out of the business after watching one too many special ed students get ignored in public schools. Instead of giving up, however, he decided to forge a new path, and is now running Educational Services of America -- a for-profit company with over 120 private and charter schools in 16 states. And, by many accounts, the schools are a success. They're working with children who have a wide variety of disabilities -- from mental retardation to high-functioning autism -- and are cobbling together funding from tuition, vouchers and contracts with states and school districts. Plus, because of the highly-specialized services ESA offers, for some [ Full article ] |
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