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Molnar, Alex; Wilson, Glen; Allen, Daniel – Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University College of Education, 2004
The for-profit management of public schools by for-profit corporations continues to be a controversial innovation. Proponents argue for-profit schools will result in educational improvement by harnessing the profit seeking motive of the marketplace. Competition, they maintain, forces companies to earn their profits by reducing administrative…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Improvement, Governance, Private Sector