LLR Partners invests in Avenues: The World School

LLR Partners invests in Avenues: The World School: "LLR Partners said Wednesday it has participated in a $75 million investment in a private-school company whose founders include a former president of Yale University.
The Philadelphia-based private-equity firm invested in Avenues: The World School, which is developing a campus system of what it calls a global school for pre-kindergarteners through 12th graders in leading cities around the world, starting in New York.
Avenues was founded in 2009 by former Yale University President Benno Schmidt; its CEO, Chris Whittle, who founded what is now EdisonLearning...

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