Management Consulting
 As a comprehensive education service provider [ESP] Mavericks in Education Florida LLC is well-equipped to assist existing charter school organizations with consulting and operating services. Should you have an interest in discussing our services and your individual needs, please contact us.
Policy and Regulatory Analysis
Mavericks in Education Florida LLC supports progressive education and charter school law with regulation that empowers school administrators to design, develop and operate successful schools. At Mavericks we pay careful attention to a local, state and national education policy and regulation. As we analyze policy initiatives, we formulate strategies to participate and offer consultation.
 Market Assessment
In America, our youth face challenges with equal opportunity for employment due to the increasing requirements many employers have placed upon obtaining higher education. And because of a much more global economy, students not only compete with each other, but also with students from many emerging countries for the same jobs. However, the nation faces many challenges with its “one size fits all” education model as far too many students fail to earn a high school diploma.
“Silent Epidemic” is a term used to describe the nation’s dropout rates. The problem lies not with the students or educators, but with the challenge of accommodating a student who cannot learn in a traditional education system. “According to John Hopkins University, 51.1 % of Florida’s high schools’ have become dropout factories – schools where no more than 60 % of the freshmen actually graduate” (Banfanz). The affect on the economy is jaw-dropping and the facts put it all into perspective:
- More than 100,000 students did no graduate from Florida’s high schools in 2007; the lost lifetime earnings in Florida for that class of dropouts alone are more than $26 billion 2
- Nearly one-third of all public high school students—and nearly one half of all African American, Hispanics, and Native Americans—fail to graduate from public high school with their class 1
- Dropouts are more than eight times as likely to be in jail or prison as high school graduates 1
 Dropouts are more likely than high schools graduates to be unemployed, in poor health, living in poverty, on public assistance, and single parents with children who drop out of high school 1 - Dropouts earn $9,200 less per year than high school graduates and more than $1 million less over a lifetime than college graduates 1
- Dropouts are four times less likely to volunteer than college graduates, twice less likely to vote or participate in community projects, and represent only 3 % of actively engaged citizens in the U.S. today 1
- Florida would save almost $1.5 billion in healthcare costs over the course of the lifetimes of each class of dropouts had they earned their diplomas 2
- Florida households would have almost $4.5 billion more in accumulated wealth if all heads of households had graduated from high school 2
- Almost $15 billion would be added to Florida’s economy by 2020 if students of color graduated at the same rate as white students 2
- If Florida’s high schools graduated all students ready for college, the state would save almost $194 million a year in community college remediation costs and lost earnings 2
- Florida’s economy would see a combination of savings and revenues of more than $506 million in reduced crimes spending and increased earnings each year if the male high school graduations rate increased by just 5% 2
On a national level, more than one million students will drop out of high school. Rather than making small changes to the traditional education system, a more “outside-the-box” approach can result in a dramatic drop in students who fail to earn a high school diploma and continue their academic and professional development.
For related news articles concerning this unresolved epidemic problem, click on any of the links below:
Cited Sources
- Ending the Silent Epidemic. 23 Nov. 2007 <http://www.silentepidemic.org/>.
- "State Information." Alliance for Excellent Education. Oct. 2007. 23 Nov. 2007 <http://www.all4ed.org/files/Florida_econ.pdf>.
Program Management
 Mavericks in Education Florida LLC can provide comprehensive program management services. Our services may include:
- Strategy and Program Development
- Board Support and Communications
- Industry and Market Research
- Applications Development and Compliance
- Financial Management and Reporting
- Curriculum Assessment, Selection and Implementation
- Marketing, Web Development and Communications
- Human Resources, Selection, Supervision and Training
- Facilities Selection, Design, Build-Out and Management
- Technology Selection, Installation and Management
- Purchasing Product Selection and Management
- Student Recruiting and Enrollment
Funding Support
Mavericks in Education Florida LLC’s school initiatives will operate as charter public schools and contract schools which will be fully government funded.
 Research and Analysis
Mavericks in Education Florida LLC is a firm believer that the best curriculum and educational solutions are based upon research and analysis.
Change Management
Mavericks in Education Florida LLC is an organization dedicated to change management. Through intensive research, measured results and a wide range of other organizational analytics, Mavericks can help transform ideas to realities or improve upon present performance.
 Information Technology
The Mavericks Management System [MMS] provides online web-based access to a series of comprehensive school management tools that cover all aspects of school operations, communications, academics, and reporting. Our education module provides assessments that test students in core curricular subject areas - Mathematics, Literature and the Arts, Writing, Science, and Social Sciences. Pretests pinpoint individual student skill deficiencies and assist teachers in assigning lessons that develop those skills.
Mavericks’ extensive use of technology and online learning better prepares students for workplace technology and continuing education. Even the most conventional universities and academic institutions have now recognized the need to deliver academics online.
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