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Kim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
As challenges to U.S. democracy proliferate, public schools have been caught up in the controversies. Columnist Robert Kim explains that the challenges to both public education and democracy are not new. These attacks occur on multiple fronts, involving funding, equity, and curriculum. And efforts to respond to the threats will require various…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Public Education, Democracy, Privatization
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Gutiérrez, Gabriel; Lupton, Ruth; Carrasco, Alejandro; Rasse, Alejandra – Journal of Education Policy, 2023
The process of privatising services historically provided by the state has blurred the boundaries between what is considered to be 'private' and 'public'. However, few efforts have been made in the educational arena to develop tools to measure this process. Most of the previous research has relied on narrow definitions about what is private and…
Descriptors: Public Education, Private Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement
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Justin D. Fraser – Critical Education, 2024
In 2021, the government of Manitoba made their plans to reform public education overt with Bill 64. Although the legislation was withdrawn as a result of immense opposition from critically engaged Manitobans, the government did not abandon its neoliberal reform plans. Instead, the spectre of Bill 64 now lingers through a variety of new educational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Educational Legislation, Public Education
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Tapia, Carla; Singh, Parlo; Whatman, Susan; Bargallie, Debbie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
While much has been written about student movements against the neoliberal privatisation of education in Chile, less attention has been given to teacher activism around similar educational matters. In this article, we contribute to the field of teacher activism as a social movement to resist the global education reforms of neoliberal education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Activism, Public Education, Privatization
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Mariano Rosenzvaig-Hernandez – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2024
The Chilean educational system is widely known as one of the most marketized systems globally. However, new political dynamics have emerged, challenging the extent to which education has been privatised and set in train what we might call the 'unmaking of the market'. Across the literature, there are numerous accounts on making markets. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Privatization, Government School Relationship
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Shannon Dawn Maree Moore; Ee-Seul Yoon; Melanie D. Janzen – Critical Education, 2024
For decades, there has been a well-coordinated effort to unmake public education in Canada and around the globe. Neoliberal reformers have undermined public education through increased privatization, marketization, and managerialism. Government austerity measures have shaped policy that falsely necessitates, validates, and legitimizes the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Rafi Santo; Aman Yadav; David Phelps – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2024
Those working toward equitable K-12 computing education in the United States have always had their work cut out for them: understanding how best to teach, developing robust curricula, designing novel tools, building teacher capacity, and supporting systemic change in schools to bring equitable computing education to young people. Collectively,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Education, Teaching Methods
Amie Rapaport; Anna Rosefsky Saavedra – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Adults' beliefs and knowledge about the state of the U.S. education system drive decisions about policy, funding, program adoption, student participation in programs, and the selection of decision makers to elected positions. Amie Rapaport and Anna Rosefsky Saavedra share national survey data showing that U.S. adults have little knowledge about…
Descriptors: Adults, Knowledge Level, Public Education, National Surveys
Mike DeGuire – Network for Public Education, 2024
Since the early 2000s, billionaires have treated the Denver Public School District as a Neo-liberal education experiment. Using a tangled web of astroturf groups, nonprofits, and training organizations, billionaires have hijacked this public school district, leaving some schools, students, and democracy behind. In this report, Denver's Mike…
Descriptors: Public Education, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Kosunen, Sonja – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
External privatisation of public education has emerged in Finland in the admission to higher education. A field analysis of thematic interviews (N = 22) with powerful actors in the private educational market and middle-class young people applying for places at universities in the highly competitive disciplines of medicine and law was conducted.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Higher Education, College Applicants
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Hania Sobhy – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2025
Unions have played a decisive role in promoting democracy and social justice in Tunisia. In 2023, two teacher unions led a yearlong 'silent strike' of withholding student marks from administration. Based on interviews with 60 teachers, this article analyses teacher views on the unions and on ongoing protests. While unions are still considered the…
Descriptors: Unions, Teacher Strikes, Foreign Countries, Activism
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Sachin Maharaj; Stephanie Tuters; Vidya Shah – Critical Education, 2024
Across Canada, school districts have been confronting a backlash to their equity and social justice initiatives. Critics of public education have been arguing that the solution to these controversies is to increase school choice. Using several examples from the United States, this paper argues that the endgame of these strategies is to undermine…
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, School Choice, Private Schools, Public Education
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Anna Jobér – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools and municipalities. This study examines a growing rate of activities from companies and businesses…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Public Education
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Pamela Rogers; Nichole Grant – Critical Education, 2024
In October 2022, New Brunswick Minister of Education and Early Childhood Development Dominic Cardy publicly resigned and widely disclosed his disappointment with Premier Blaine Higgs' leadership. Using Cardy's unprecedented public resignation letter as a primary source, this paper explores the inner workings of neoliberal governance and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Government School Relationship, Neoliberalism, Governance
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Kannisto, Tarna Kaisa – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2022
In this paper, I argue that the more objectively desirable children's formal education is, the stronger are the moral reasons to conceptualise the school normatively as a public social institution. Social institutions are goods-producing teleological entities for which the good created provides a central framework for the normative evaluation of…
Descriptors: Institutions, Public Education, Educational Philosophy, Power Structure
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