[WILL-AM] Merrow Report (June 10)
Denise Perry
Fr: Lolly Axley
Re: The Merrow Report #22
[WILL-AM/580 airs this program at 3PM (CDT) on Saturday, June
10, 2000]
Program ID: 00-E75-00005
Title: THE MERROW REPORT
1. Running Public Schools for a Profit?
2. How Are Schools Financed?
THE MERROW REPORT PROG #22 RUNDOWN:
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00:01:00 00:06:00 NPR NEWS
00:06:00 00:21:00 PROGRAM SEGMENT 1
Colleges, universities, private schools, and parochial schools
all spend more money than they receive in tuition. They all
lose money. Yet entrepreneur Chris Whittle believes he can run
public schools with tax dollars and make a profit. He is the
founder of the Edison Project, which now runs 79 public schools
nationwide. So far, hes lost money but he remains optimistic.
John Merrow welcomes Chris Whittle to discuss for-profit
schools. What happens to education when schools become
concerned with the bottom line?
00:21:00 00:22:00 MUSIC BREAK
00:22:00 00:41:30 PROGRAM SEGMENT 1 CONT.
00:41:30 00:42:30 MUSIC BREAK
00:42:30 00:59:00 PROGRAM SEGMENT 2
How are schools financed? Listeners wrote in to say they didnt
understand so in this segment John Merrow welcomes Steve
Drummond and Robert Johnston from Education Week to explain.
Schools receive about half of their funding from their state and
some funding from the federal government. The rest comes from
local property taxes. Education is a fiercely local issue and
districts feel they should be able to spend as much as they want
to on their local schools. But does this liberty leave equity
behind?
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