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Beales, Janet R. – American School Board Journal, 1995
Public schools that contract with someone outside to offer an instructional program need to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) to potential providers. This document details the type of service desired and invites individuals or companies to submit bids or proposals for consideration. Explains the key components of an RFP. (MLF)
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development, Performance Contracts
McLaughlin, John M. – School Administrator, 1995
The $300 billion-a-year public education market has many private investors salivating--until they confront the complexity of school management and teacher unions' resistance. Private companies want to shift the school board's role from sole proprietor to purchaser of educational services. Sidebars advise superintendents and describe 15 private…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Partnerships in Education, Privatization

Tilak, Jandhyala B. G. – Higher Education, 1993
Problems in the financing of higher education in India, particularly in the large proportion of costs borne by the government, are examined. Several policy proposals to remedy the problems, including privatization, are critically reviewed. It is concluded that there is a need for experimentation with a number of alternatives. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Government School Relationship
Lewis, Edward T. – Trusteeship, 1994
Saint Mary's College of Maryland, previously a public college, has become a unique public-private hybrid in response to changes in state support commitments. Although this model could not be applied to most institutions, the experience suggests that college and universities must find new means of financing and relating to the state. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Governance, Higher Education
Golden, James T. – School Business Affairs, 1993
An informal survey of 20 major urban school districts found that 40% were currently operating in a "break down" maintenance mode. A majority, 57.9%, also indicated they saw considerable benefits in contracting for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) maintenance services with outside firms. Offers guidelines in selecting…
Descriptors: Bids, Climate Control, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Martin, L. M. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1993
Implications of two trends in Australian higher education are considered. These trends are shift to a fee-for-services system in which the government pays less of the cost of higher education; and move toward deregulation, with elimination of centralized planning and emphasis placed on institutional response to student demand. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Decentralization, Educational Economics, Federal Regulation

Nelson, Joel I. – Social Science Quarterly, 1992
Reports on a study that questions whether private enterprise can maintain quality while reducing costs of providing social welfare services. Reviews three aspects of privatization: (1) competitive markets; (2) rationality; and (3) cost reduction. Concludes by questioning a central claim of economic theory: that free markets and private firms are…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Civil Rights, Economics, Free Enterprise System
College Planning & Management, 1999
Presents administrator's views on possible trends in college and universities. Addresses: hazardous waste disposal; privatization of custodial services; libraries and technology; building product purchases based on life-cycle cost; continuing education for employees; armed campus security; fees and tuition collection via online transactions; and…
Descriptors: Colleges, Computer Security, Hazardous Materials, Higher Education
Wells, Amy Stuart; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
A study of 17 charter schools in 10 California districts concludes that these schools have not lived up to the assumptions propelling them. Charters fell short on accountability, administrative autonomy, funding efficiency, choice and admissions, infusion of competition, and instructional innovation. Public school educators claim charters are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Charter Schools, Efficiency
Lieberman, Myron – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Although teacher unions promote private means of resolving labor conflicts instead of using public courts, they are engaged in a war on privatization, especially contracting out. It is surprising that the media and higher education take seriously the contention that unions do not negatively affect educational achievement. Advocates of "the…
Descriptors: Conservatism, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education

Phillips, Larry; And Others – Journal of College Student Development, 1996
Investigates 31 colleges and 1 state system of 21 colleges that addressed privatizing counseling services. A small number of colleges were found to have adopted different models of outsourcing, and some had considered outsourcing but not pursued it. Discusses advantages, disadvantages, factors affecting decision making, and levels of success. (JPS)
Descriptors: Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Decision Making
Tetreault, Donald R.; Picus, Lawrence O. – School Business Affairs, 1996
Calls for the continued privatization of public schools and the application of business solutions to school management problems are nothing new. Successful small-scale experiments at privatization will continue to have an incremental effect on educational reform. Even failed experiments offer opportunities about how to manage public education.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education
Howe, Harold, II – School Administrator, 1996
A former U.S. commissioner of education wonders if privatization and vouchers represent threats, annoyances, or utopias. Private contracting could hinder community involvement and the teacher professionalization movement. Profit-making goals might resolve class size policy in favor of economic efficiency, not student learning. Vouchers will reduce…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Problems

Barber, Benjamin R. – Social Education, 2000
Explains that the challenge for the next millennium is preserving and securing the common good against the forces associated with globalization. Discusses globalization in detail, the privatization of public power, the commercialization of what is privatized, and the infantilization and homogeneity of consumers. (CMK)
Descriptors: Capitalism, Children, Consumer Economics, Private Sector
Pratt, Graham; Poole, David – Australian Universities' Review, 2000
Discusses the rise of entrepreneurialism in Australian universities as one response to globalization. Examines its positive and negative effects upon educational standards, academic morale, and structure of academic work. Highlights areas of fundamental change in the sector, including changes in university missions and culture and the uneven…
Descriptors: College Administration, Educational Finance, Educational Trends, Entrepreneurship