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Schmieder, June; And Others – 1996
The opportunity to increase private company revenues and the pressure to minimize losses within a public school district's cafeteria and general funds have propelled the emergence of private food-service-management companies (FSMCs). This paper presents findings of a study that examined privatization of school food services and its effect on the…
Descriptors: Budgets, Contracts, Educational Economics, Educational Finance
Shapiro, Walter – Time, 1991
To help public schools experience free-market competition, Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander and President Bush propose parental choice among private, parochial, and public schools, supported by public financing for program design and tuition grants. Sidebars highlight church/state separation concerns and school choice experiments in…
Descriptors: Competition, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries