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Similarly, the Edison Project and Sylvan Learning Center will lose their contracts if their students do not learn.
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In 1991 Christopher Whittle, a media entrepreneur, and Benno Schmidt, a former president of Yale University, founded the Edison Project, with plans to create a chain of 1, 000 for-profit schools.
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Similarly, preliminary evaluations of the Edison Project, a private firm which manages 12 local schools, demonstrate that students have made significant academic gains on student achievement tests in three of the four Edison schools that opened in 1995.
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Once completed, the project will sell 100 percent of the power and renewable energy credits generated to Southern California Edison under 20-year fixed price power purchase agreements.
WHITEHOUSE: 12/17/2010 WH Urban Affairs Newsletter