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Ponomariov, Branco; Kingsley, Gordon; Boardman, Craig – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
This paper compares over a 12-year period (1) patterns of contracting between a state transportation agency and its prime contractors providing engineering design services with (2) patterns between these prime contractors and their subcontractors. We find evidence of different contracting patterns at each level that emerge over time and coexist in…
Descriptors: State Agencies, Privatization, Outsourcing, Professional Services
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Chen, Rong; St. John, Edward P. – Journal of Higher Education, 2011
In the context of the privatization of higher education, this study examines the possible role of state finances in promoting equal educational opportunities. Through the combined use of a national representative database and a state finance database and the application of hierarchical generalized linear modeling methods, this study found that…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Persistence, Privatization, Equal Education
Burke, Patrick J.; Klein, Jennifer R. – School Administrator, 2009
In the late 1990s, Fulton County Schools in Atlanta were looking at average enrollment growth of more than 2,500 students a year and a new source of significant revenue to drive its capital improvement program. With funding from Georgia's new special purpose local option sales tax, or SPLOST, for school capital needs, total revenue from the…
Descriptors: Privatization, School Construction, Program Administration, School Districts