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Bruno, Nick – College Planning & Management, 1999
Explores the history of privatizing university housing and some current financing options, including use of developer and private foundations. Examples of successful alternative financing methods are highlighted. (GR)
Descriptors: Financial Support, Higher Education, Housing, Privatization
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Friesen, Larry D. – Child Welfare, 2001
Foster parents were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward the privatization of family foster care services in Kansas. Respondents reported their current level of satisfaction, opinions about privatization, and their experiences with new community-based treatment teams. Responses indicated that satisfaction remained high, but also variances in…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Foster Care, Parent Attitudes, Privatization
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Ekberg, Merryn – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2005
This article examines some of the controversial issues emerging from the privatization of biomedical research and commercialization of biotechnology. The aim is to identify the dominant social, political, and ethical risks associated with the recent shift from academic to corporate science and from the increasing emphasis on investing in research…
Descriptors: Risk, Privatization, Biomedicine, Scientific Research
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Carpenter, Wade A. – Educational Horizons, 2005
As amply documented by "evangelical/liberal" Jim Wallis in his new "God's Politics", any country can be profoundly improved by voices of faith, hope, and love whose appeals are to reason, conscience, and civility, and who have avoided the entrapments of partisanship. Among such voices have been those of Martin Luther King,…
Descriptors: Jews, Privatization, Federal Legislation, State Church Separation
National Education Association Research Department, 2007
The National Education Association (NEA) Handbook is published annually for use by Association officers, national and state staff, members, and other interested leaders in the field of education. The Association's key governance documents--including the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules, and the Legislative Program, resolutions, policy statements,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Finance, Governance, Public Education
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Corney, Tim; Broadbent, Robyn – Youth Studies Australia, 2007
The development of a national youth work training package in Australia began over 15 years ago. The current package sits under the umbrella of the general Community Services Industry Training Package. The first stage of a review of this package has been completed and the subsequent report not only confirms the recent trend towards the…
Descriptors: Community Services, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Youth Programs
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Brown, Trevor; Potoski, Matt – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
Contracting critics suggest that when governments outsource, they reduce their capacity to produce services and manage service delivery. In this paper, we decompose the service delivery decision into service production and service management components. When governments contract for service production, they may also choose to contract for a…
Descriptors: Vendors, Privatization, Policy Analysis, Sanitation
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Berdahl, Robert; Contardo, Jeanne Bayer – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
This is a case study of a state institution granted charter status in 1992 in exchange for capping its request for state funds. St. Mary's College of Maryland received widespread freedom from state procedural controls, including procurement, personnel, and some capital development processes. The state, however, retained its oversight of the…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Colleges, Case Studies, State Aid
Gabbard, David A., Ed.; Ross, E. Wayne, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This highly acclaimed volume in the "Defending Public Schools" series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Privatization, Federal Legislation
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Sunderman, Gail L. – Review of Research in Education, 2010
This chapter is organized as follows. The first section examines the evolving state and federal role in education and the implications of an expanded federal role on the structure of the educational system. It pays particular attention to how the debate on the causes and solutions to school reform has shifted and the impact this has had on school…
Descriptors: Privatization, Civil Rights, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Howe-Barksdale, Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2007
Globalization and privatization have begun to destabilize the patterns of university professional work and campus community. African American Women Administrators battle the unique challenges of racial and gender discrimination as well as the intersection of these issues. AAWAs face feelings of isolation and lack of trust, and struggles over power…
Descriptors: Females, Global Approach, Gender Discrimination, Women Administrators
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Morgan, Anthony W.; Kulikova, Nadezhda V. – European Education, 2007
After the political upheavals of the early 1990s, Russian higher education was thrown into turmoil as federal spending for higher education was cut drastically and payments to institutions were delayed. Since all sectors of the economy were affected by these changes, political leaders were focusing first on more volatile sectors, leaving higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, State Action, Educational Change, Norms
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Vergari, Sandra – Educational Policy, 2007
Charter schools, and other market-based reforms such as school vouchers and the student tutoring provision of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, are steeped in politics largely because they challenge the legitimacy of traditional power and funding arrangements in public education. The charter school reform is a significant public-private hybrid…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, School Restructuring, Public Education
Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health, 2005
"Data Trends" reports present summaries of research on mental health services for children and adolescents and their families. The article summarized in this "Data Trends" discusses national data on transition services available for children served within the state child mental health systems. These data are derived from information provided by…
Descriptors: Health Services, Youth, Privatization, Mental Health Programs
Freundlich, Madelyn; Gerstenzang, Sarah – 2003
Many government bodies and policymakers have embraced privatization of child welfare services, while others question whether privatization is truly more cost-effective or provides the best services. This book reports on six states' efforts to privatize their child welfare systems and their varying levels of success. This research documents the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Privatization
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