Buyer Beware: Avoiding Privatization's Pitfalls.

Jones, Rebecca

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ERIC Number: EJ539137

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Buyer Beware: Avoiding Privatization's Pitfalls.

Jones, Rebecca

American School Board Journal, v184 n3 p21-23 Mar 1997

Offers strategies for contracting out school services: (1) talk with employees; (2) conduct needs assessment; (3) specify needs and expectations in writing; (4) beware of state laws; (5) investigate the contracting company; and (6) devise a backup plan. (LMI)

Descriptors: Contracts, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Needs Assessment, Private Sector, Privatization, School Business Relationship, State Legislation

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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