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Ochsner to partner on charter school, interesting comment about LA business climate
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:31 pm
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This is neat. Ochsner is successful and so is Kenner Discovery. Will be interesting to see them partner on this.
But, in the article itself, is a very interesting comment.
Could this be the start of something here?
1) Major company wants to locate in Louisiana, but is worried about the schools
2) Major company builds a school, and links up with a charter school operator. Major company reserves half their seats for children of their employees (when universities do this, they can only reserve half under state law).
3) Company is run with public dollars as a public school, but with heavy influence from the company.
It's an interesting concept.
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Ochsner is getting into the charter school business. Louisiana’s largest non-profit academic health care system is joining forces with the operator of Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy to start kindergarten through third-grade classes in 2020 at an interim Old Jefferson site, with plans to move the following year to a new campus about a mile away and expand to eighth grade.
This is neat. Ochsner is successful and so is Kenner Discovery. Will be interesting to see them partner on this.
But, in the article itself, is a very interesting comment.
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The Ochsner employee benefit underscores a common lament of business leaders who are active in education politics: Big corporations balk at moving to or expanding in Jefferson because the overall C grade for its public school system, Louisiana’s largest, seems mediocre and their executives flinch at the thought of paying private school tuition.
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Half the seats will be reserved for children of Ochsner Health System employees who live in Jefferson Parish, the other half for non-employee children who live in Jefferson Parish, with preference for those living in the neighborhood.
Could this be the start of something here?
1) Major company wants to locate in Louisiana, but is worried about the schools
2) Major company builds a school, and links up with a charter school operator. Major company reserves half their seats for children of their employees (when universities do this, they can only reserve half under state law).
3) Company is run with public dollars as a public school, but with heavy influence from the company.
It's an interesting concept.
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Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:35 pm to LSUFanHouston
OLOL runs a pretty interesting school in BR. It's a private school but the students intern at businesses for free and the business pays their tuition rather than a paycheck. We sponsor one of these kids.
They get some real world experience. I made the kid come sit in and watch us conduct an interview once.
They get some real world experience. I made the kid come sit in and watch us conduct an interview once.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:35 pm to LSUFanHouston
I guess Ochsner is having trouble funneling all their profits into new hospitals to keep their non profit tax status
That’s a loop hole that needs to be closed
That’s a loop hole that needs to be closed
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:37 pm to LSUFanHouston
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1) Major company wants to locate in Louisiana, but is worried about the schools
Well nobody, major company or not, wants to pay taxes and make donations for shitty schools.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:50 pm to fallguy_1978
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We sponsor one of these kids.
Javonte Smart?
Posted on 3/15/19 at 5:54 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Javonte Smart?
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:01 pm to fallguy_1978
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the business pays their tuition rather than a paycheck
This doesn't make sense if we're talking about school children, can you clarify?
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:23 pm to LSUFanHouston
I think the NOLA area school systems will always suck
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:53 pm to jlc05
Basis in Baton rouge partner with woman's hospital
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:54 pm to NewOrleansBlend
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This doesn't make sense if we're talking about school children, can you clarify?
It's a high school only as far as I know
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:57 pm to fallguy_1978
Is that Cristo Rey? Isn't that for high risk inner-city kids?
Posted on 3/15/19 at 6:59 pm to WildManGoose
Yeah that's it. I don't know about high risk but I do think it's for lower income kids.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:24 pm to WaWaWeeWa
Everyone that downvoted my post explain the logic of this...
Ochsner is “not-for-profit”
Yet they use hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to buy up hospitals and providers to expand their empire. Small providers can’t compete with such a large entity that doesn’t pay taxes.
Ochsner is so flush with cash they just can’t figure out ways to spend it fast enough so that they don’t show a profit.
Not having healthy and fair competition in healthcare is a bad thing. And that’s where we are headed.
Ochsner is “not-for-profit”
Yet they use hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to buy up hospitals and providers to expand their empire. Small providers can’t compete with such a large entity that doesn’t pay taxes.
Ochsner is so flush with cash they just can’t figure out ways to spend it fast enough so that they don’t show a profit.
Not having healthy and fair competition in healthcare is a bad thing. And that’s where we are headed.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:27 pm to LSUFanHouston
Next stop is GIS High School in Galliano but for real, I can see more big companies starting this... cradle to grave type shite.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:29 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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I guess Ochsner is having trouble funneling all their profits into new hospitals
May be funneling those profits into LSU athletics. Definitely need to close that loophole.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:31 pm to LSUFanHouston
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You want a white hot hatred from the LEA? Because this is how you get a white hit hatred from the LEA.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:36 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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Yet they use hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to buy up hospitals and providers to expand their empire.
So?
Plenty of non profit hospitals do the same and this has no impact on that status.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:47 pm to LSUFanHouston
You’re a CEO looking to expand or relocate to the South-Central US. Do you choose Louisiana or Texas?
Texas:
Good school districts all over the state.
No state income taxes (property taxes are steep)
Less government red tape and B.S.
Tons of educated and qualified job applicants
Louisiana:
Very few decent areas to live, and even fewer good school districts for not only your family, but also your employees.
State income tax.
Most quality prospective employees have fled the state.
Government red tape and politicians around every corner with their hand out.
And charter schools are a good idea in theory, but they are quickly devolving into a money making scheme for the politically connected.
Texas:
Good school districts all over the state.
No state income taxes (property taxes are steep)
Less government red tape and B.S.
Tons of educated and qualified job applicants
Louisiana:
Very few decent areas to live, and even fewer good school districts for not only your family, but also your employees.
State income tax.
Most quality prospective employees have fled the state.
Government red tape and politicians around every corner with their hand out.
And charter schools are a good idea in theory, but they are quickly devolving into a money making scheme for the politically connected.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:55 pm to WaWaWeeWa
They just took over the University Health hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe. It was either them or Willis-Knighton. Would rather them than WK, who already had a near monopoly in Shreveport.
Posted on 3/15/19 at 7:56 pm to LSUFanHouston
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