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Maranto, Robert – American Journal of Education, 2005
In August 2001, the state-run Control Board for the Chester-Upland School District awarded control of nine of their 10 schools to Edison Schools, with little opposition. In contrast, nearby Philadelphia fought state efforts to privatize schools. Finally, on July 31, 2002, the joint state-city Philadelphia School Reform Commission partially…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, School Restructuring, Privatization, Urban Schools
Minicucci, Stephen; Donahue, John D. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
The scholarly and popular debate on the delegation to the private sector of governmental tasks rests on an inadequate empirical foundation, as no systematic data are collected on direct versus indirect service delivery. We offer a simple method for approximating levels of service outsourcing, based on relatively straightforward combinations of and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, State Government, Local Government, Privatization
When Eagles Are Allowed to Fly--A Global and Contextual Perspective on Teacher Education in Ethiopia
Dahlstrom, Lars – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2007
The present reconfiguration of education by neo-liberal forces worldwide is taken as a basis for this essay. Drawing on examples of how this reconfiguration operates on national arenas through decisive and dishonest discourses of commoditisation and privatisation, management and efficiency, education for all and student-centred education, the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Educational Change
Saltman, Kenneth J. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
In this essay, the author suggests that worldwide disasters are providing the means for business to accumulate profit. From the Asian tsunami of 2005 that allowed corporations to seize coveted shoreline properties for resort development to the multi-billion dollar no-bid reconstruction contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the privatization of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Council of the Great City Schools, 2008
The Detroit Public Schools (DPS) have been battered by substantial outside forces over the last decade. The school system was taken over by the state; its elected school board was dissolved and replaced by an appointed body; its many operating systems were privatized; its citizenry were encouraged to flee to charter schools; and its resources have…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Textbooks, State Standards
Camilleri, Anthony F. – Online Submission, 2008
The presentation looks at the latest statistics on participation in Higher Education, to question whether privatisation of systems has significant effects on participation, affordability and equity of Higher Education. It further looks into questions of autonomy and governance of Higher Education systems in private and public systems, and finally…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Barriers, College Attendance
Hohman, James M.; Freeland, William L. E. – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2008
Privatization of school support services is a time-tested means for lowering educational costs. The three major services that school districts in Michigan contract out for are food, custodial and transportation. The Mackinac Center for Public Policy's survey of privatization is the longest running and most comprehensive source of school support…
Descriptors: Counties, Unions, State Legislation, Competition
Bhanji, Zahra – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2008
This paper explores the rising presence of transnational corporations (TNCs) in education and their mobilisation of global corporate social discourses to legitimise their private authority in education. The rising presence of TNCs is explored in the paper in two parts. First, through a taxonomy of global corporate social engagement (GCSE)…
Descriptors: Corporations, Global Approach, Free Enterprise System, International Trade
Lubienski, Chris – 2001
This paper considers how school choice is, or is not, a form of privatization in education. Although "privatization" is a predominant reform movement apparent across the globe, the term is used imprecisely, making it difficult to assess the relationship of the movement to education. The first part of this analysis distinguishes essential…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ownership, Privatization
Harrington-Lueker, Donna – Executive Educator, 1994
Baltimore schools have begun their second year of a controversial $133 million contract with Minneapolis-based Education Alternatives Incorporated, a private, for-profit firm now managing nine of the city's most troubled schools. Sylvan Learning Systems, a for-profit company, administers the Chapter 1 tutoring program at six other schools. The…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization

Whiting, Bruce G. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1993
The Russian entrepreneur faces major obstacles to any long-term business venture, including hyperinflation, ineffective or missing legal procedures, infrastructure problems, and corruption in government and private sectors. Encouragement of entrepreneurial enterprise formation may help creative Russians help the country find its own prosperity.…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
McLaughlin, John M. – Principal, 1994
A private organization (Education Alternative, Inc.) is presently managing nine Baltimore public schools; Christopher Whittle's Edison Project is planning similar public school management projects; a private consulting company (Public Strategies Group) recently took charge of the Minneapolis public schools. Goaded by concerns about accountability…
Descriptors: Accountability, Consultants, Elementary Secondary Education, Privatization
Doohan, John – World of Work, 1993
Provides case studies and data from the major telecommunications service providers in most of the industrialized countries. Discusses reasons for the persistence of monopolies and the difficulty of affecting organizational change. Looks at privatization, challenges facing the workforce, and new job opportunities that would result. (JOW)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Organizational Change, Privatization
Goodlad, John I. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
As Arthur Schlesinger predicted, private interests are subverting public purpose. The narrative of economic utility dominates school reform. Reform language is not uplifting and embodies the traditional connotations of things gone wrong that need correcting. The language of renewal celebrates the self and reflects a supportive, caring ethos. (25…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualism, Language
Feir, Priscilla L. – School Business Affairs, 1996
The three major players in the current efforts to privatize schools are the following companies: Education Alternatives, Inc., the Edison Project, and Public Strategies Group Inc. Explanations of their programs include core competencies, economic capability, technological capability, and strategic capability. (MLF)
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Private Sector, Privatization, Public Schools