After 15 years in a fully insured health benefits plan that had become unsustainable, Denver-based charter school DSST Public Schools decided to move to a self-funded plan and was rewarded big with $700,000 in savings in its first year....
To say that opening new charter school Rio Grande Academy of Fine Arts (RioGAFA) has kept primary co-founders Jordan Franco and Michele Platis busy would be a massive understatement. Franco is as seasoned as they come in the education field. His résumé spans more than 15...
For charter schools, figuring out how to spend a multi-billion-dollar influx of federal funds, and doing so without breaking any program rules or making any potentially untenable long-term financial commitments, is a good problem to have....
Like most schools that rely on a fully insured, carrier-driven program to deliver healthcare benefits to employees, Twin Peaks Charter Academy (TPCA) had grown accustomed to perennial (and in many cases, hefty) premium increases that inevitably left school officials to confront a multiple-choice question with...
Like a kid who needs a back-to-school wardrobe overhaul after a summertime growth spurt, the charter school management organization Green Dot Public Schools found itself needing a significant upgrade to its back-office systems following an aggressive expansion in which its network grew from a single...
Every time a young teacher tells him, unsolicited, that they want to spend their career working for A+ Charter Schools, every time he sees staff retention rates and student engagement scores climb across the four-school charter network, A+ Superintendent and CEO Brenton White is reassured...
Brian Driskell doesn’t work for a charter school, but he has worked closely enough with charter school procurement people to know the all-too-common predicament many of them face in their jobs. “These people almost always wear multiple hats,” observes Driskell, senior strategy manager, education, at Grainger...
Here in the age of digitally connected classrooms, computer-driven learning and Big Data, an educational organization’s security responsibilities extend well beyond protecting the physical well-being of their students, staff and structures. No one knows that better than Bryant Wong, Chief Technology Officer at Summit Public...
When is the right time to hire a procurement director, a person dedicated to overseeing purchasing functions and the policies that underpin them? It’s a question that stirs debate within charter school organizations around the country....
How KIPP San Antonio Got a Handle on Procurement Charter school network CFO tells a still-unfolding story of the fits, starts, frustrations and triumphs that have accompanied implementation of the organization’s new purchasing policy Bringing a coherent, transparent procurement policy to an organization that has long lacked...