Here is an event you won’t want to miss, if you can pay the price of admission.
So many opportunities to cash in on the emerging market of education.
There are, as the ad says, lots of needs to address:
“This is a long-overdue shift the public has been clamoring for — measuring quality by what students are able to master, not by time spent in a classroom — and the private sector is offering numerous opportunities to ride this wave.
“Another example is the push to enhance offerings in the K-12 space, potentially opening up more early childhood and supplemental education.
“And many for-profit providers are finding opportunities in partnerships with hospitals and universities and other large employers, so what was once a demand stemming primarily from affluent parents is now trickling downwards.
“These are just some of the excellent reasons why investors who appreciate expanding opportunities in attractively-priced companies belong at The Capital Roundtable’s ENCORE conference — “Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies,” being held in New York City on Thursday, July 25th.
“Here are even more reasons that new technologies have created among education companies focused on support services —
“Teacher Evaluations — now being put into the hands of third parties.
Enrollment Specialists — outsourcing this key activity to dedicated firms.
Student Services and Job Placement — increasingly being turned over to middle-market providers.
Admissions and Financial Aid IT — with huge interest in software and SAAS providers.
Massive Open Online Courses — helping institutions deliver large-scale MOOCs that are typically free to take and to serve to build an institution’s brand.
Syndicated Content — helping institutions save on course development and faculty costs with pre-packaged curriculums to be delivered online with the institution’s own brand.
No argument, this is an amazing moment for private equity investors to explore for-profit education opportunities. And this encore conference from The Capital Roundtable is particularly valuable if you are new to the education marketplace and need to understand its particular complexities such as the Higher Education Reauthorization Act implications.
“Just consider —
“The education sector represents the second biggest category of GDP, so there’s a lot of need to address.
63% of the deal value last year in the for-profit education sector represented private equity transactions, up from 51% the year earlier.”
What are you waiting for?
I don’t have a problem with for profit companies serving the needs of education. I do have a problem with our public educational institutions spending money stupidly. If the for profit company is providing a product or service that enhances what schools and teachers do, then fine; do more of that. I don’t want anyone sucking money out public institutions, though, and leaving them crippled, just so a for profit or private non-profit can flourish.
I can’t wait. The only things separating me from this opportunity to cover odiousness at its roots is about the $4,000 it would take me to get to New York, register at the Fifth Ave. Hilton, and pay the registration fee for the conference.
George, I hope a journalist registers and reports on the great Public School Raid.
FREE MONEY, FREE MONEY, FREE MONEY, just say “For the Children” and the financial floodgates will open for you. We will help you. Just join the Charter Schools Association and/or Parent Revolution.
Not free money–our tax money being redistributed to the super rich.
Disgusting. What else is left to say? Education has been reduced to just another economic sector to be raided.
Yup…disgusting is right!
And a bargain at twice the price, for all those venture capital types out there! Only $1200, now that early registration is closed…
Reading this just gave me a sickening feeling of dread – makes me want to vomit. Instead, I’ll get past it and redouble my efforts to work against this corporate take over.
TeacherKen writes that Education Week is in on it as well:
Education Week would like to extend an exclusive invitation to you for The Capital Roundtable’s conference on Private Equity Investing in For-Profit Education Companies, being held on Thursday, July 25 in New York City.
As a partner, we have the privilege of putting your name on our VIP list, allowing you to register for a special rate of $995 – a savings of $400 off the standard registration price.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/09/1222290/-An-illustration-of-what-is-seriously-wrong-with-education
Education Week has been “in on it” for quite some time….
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post based on an article that, I believe, came from one of your blog posts: (http://waynegersen.com/2013/06/28/emanuel-not-wasting-a-manufactured-crisis/) As noted in the concluding paragraph, as a superintendent looking for ways to save money so that I wouldn’t have to cut at the classroom level, I was willing to outsource in non-instructional areas like snow-plowing, transportation, food services, payroll processing, ANY area that fell outside instruction… I never envisioned the day would come when instruction, teacher evaluation, and student testing would be outsourced…
Yes, I agree. Custodial staff and food service would be a better place to outsource. And still can be.
LAUSD has outsourced cafeteria workers with their breakfast in the classroom program. Teachers do it for free, unless you count the minutes of instructional time paid for by students. Since the district has cut custodial services to bare minimum levels, teachers and students do the cleaning. I actually have a memo from my principal directing me to have my students help me clean the classroom. Where is Newt Gingrich when you need him? My kids are still waiting to get paid!
Related: today the LISC and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are sponsoring a one-day symposium called: Bonds and Blackboards: Investing in Charter Schools. http://www.lisc.org/content/event/detail/20837
I tried to get my husband to go to this just to find out all that is said, but it is a high price ticket.
I want to know everything from all sides, even though I know what my gut says.
Diane, I am guessing this is conference I asked about earlier today. Thanks for posting it. I’m going to see if I can get invited no fee. You’re right — we need to know what’s going on. Stay tuned..
I looked at their website. Smartest person is Chris Larson. Everyone else’s pictures are on an angle & interfered with the text. http://www.willisstein.com/chris-larson.html
See team link on website for who they are.
I wouldn’t attend this event.