In cases where Edison has been asked to leave a school district, what were the reasons?
In the course of researching this program, FRONTLINE sought to contact every district where ties with Edison had been broken: a total of 13 clients, representing 32 schools. We found that sometimes districts fire Edison, and sometimes it’s Edison that drops the district. Since it started running schools in 1995, Edison has unilaterally terminated about a third of its lost contracts, often citing lack of profitability as the cause. For example, this was the case in Mt. Clemens, Mich., where the company ran four schools. In the rest of the cases, it was the client who fired Edison. Many districts said cost was the reason they dropped the company, citing in particular its per-pupil fee. Critics pointed out that while Edison typically managed elementary schools, the per-pupil fee they received was an average of what the district spent on all students in grades K-12. Because middle and high schools are typically more expensive to run, critics argued that the districts were paying Edison too
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