Public Education and Private Enterprise: Where's This New Relationship Going?.

McLaughlin, John M.

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ERIC Number: EJ508277

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Public Education and Private Enterprise: Where's This New Relationship Going?

McLaughlin, John M.

School Administrator, v52 n7 p6-11,13 Aug 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 education firms. (MLH)

Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Partnerships in Education, Privatization, Public Education, Resistance to Change, School Business Relationship, Superintendents, Unions

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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