• Cover Page: PRIVATIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL CHOICE
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 The Significance of Privatization and Choice for Education
    • The Modes of Privatization
    • The Privatization Movement
    • To Whom Is This Book Addressed
    • Why Reforms Fail: An Illustrative Scenario
    • The Plan of This Book
    • Two Caveats
  • 2 Should Government buy or Make Education
    • The Make-or-Buy Decision in Public Education
    • Contracting Out: Some Caveats
    • Contracting Out By Level Of Government
    • Contracting Out at the Federal Level
    • Contracting Out at the State Level
    • Contracting Out at the Local Level
    • Efficiency and Management Incentives
    • Economies of Scale
    • The Job Redundancy Issue
    • Avoidance of Bureaucracy
    • Capital Outlays
    • Avoidance of Single-Supplier Problems
    • Inefficient Public Sector Business Practices
    • Public Awareness of Service Costs
    • The Case Against Buying Public Services: An Overview
    • Corruption Issues in a Systems Perspective
    • Contracting Out Noneducational Services:
    • A Summary of the Evidence
  • 3 Efficiency Issues in Educational Perspective
    • Efficiency Issues and State Regulation
    • Costs And Benefits In Educational Contracting Out
    • Local Costs Not Shown on School District Budgets
    • Costs Not Shown on Any Local Budget
    • Costs Not Shown on Any Budget -- Local, State, or Federal
    • Unfunded Pension Costs
    • Neglected Costs in Contracting Out
    • Private Ownership of Public Schools
  • 4 Lessons from OEO Fiasco
    • An Overview Of The OEO Project2
    • Implications of the OEO Project for Contracting Out
    • Overcoming Union Opposition to Contracting Out
    • The Role of School Management in Contracting Out
    • The Allocation and Distribution of Instructional Time
    • Invitations for Bid and Requests for Proposals9
    • Contract Management Under Contracting OUT
    • Table 4.1
    • Invitation For Bid (Ifb) Vs. Request For Proposal (Rfp)
    • Complaint Procedures
    • Low Bid Versus Best Bid
    • Contracting Out and the Improvement of Public Education
  • 5 Educational Choice as a Means to Educational Improvement
    • The Educational Improvement Rationale for Family Choice
    • The Expansion of Supply and the Mobility of Resources
    • Vouchers and the Number of Educational Suppliers
    • Competition: Service Dimensions
    • Competition: Parents as Consumers
    • Gallup Poll On Vouchers, 1970-83
    • Percentage Of Public School Teachers Who Send Children To Private Schools
    • Parent Ability to Choose Schools: A Perspective
    • Vouchers As The "Exit" Or "Voice" Issue In Education
  • 6 Competition Under Voucher Plans
    • Nonprofit Status And Competition Under Voucher Plans
    • The Role of Nonprofit Organizations
    • Nonprofit Schools as a Response to Unsatisfied Demand for Educational Services
    • Nonprofit Schools as Trustworthy Producers: The Contract Failure Argument
    • Nonprofit Organizations as the Result of "Backward Integration"
    • Nonprofit Status in Theory and Practice
    • Service Differentiation
    • Implications of the Labor-intensive Nature of Education
    • Lessons from the Health Care Industry
    • The Exploitation of children for Profit
    • Transfers Under Voucher Plans
    • Competition In Education: Some Observations
    • The Effects of Vouchers on Nonpublic Schools
  • 7 Noneducational Arguments for Vouchers
    • The Religious Rationale for Vouchers
    • Family Choice and the Separation of Church and State
    • Educational Achievement in Public and Private Schools
    • The "Social Capital" Hypothesis
    • Similarities Between Public And Catholic Schools
    • Average Semesters Of Coursework Completed, 10th To 12th Grades, Students In Academic Programs
    • Similarities in Staff
    • Policy Implications of the Similarity and Social Capital Hypotheses
    • The Political Rationale For Family Choice
    • Antidemocratic Schools
    • The Taxpayer Rationale
    • Percent Of Private School Students Who Received Publicly Funded Services, By Type Of Service And Religious Affiliation Of School, 1983-84 School Year
    • The Civil Liberties Rationale for Vouchers
  • 8 The Politics of Choice
    • The Changing Patterns of Consumption
    • Choice Within Public Schools
    • Choice Within Public Schools: Tactic or Policy?
    • The Political Paradox of Vouchers
    • The Vermont Experience: Reality Confounds Rhetoric
    • The Politics Of Vouchers
    • Minivouchers
  • 9 Educational for Profit: Big Business or Cottage Industry
    • Educational Testing and Market Size
    • For-Profit Learning Centers
    • The Future of Learning Centers
  • 10 Thinking the Unthinkable: Load Shedding
    • The Emergence of Education at Public Expense
    • Home Schooling
    • The Number of "Home Schoolers"
    • Who Are the Home Schoolers?
    • The Rationale(s) for Home Schooling
    • The Future Of Educational Load Shedding
    • Home Schooling Implications for Load Shedding
    • Load Shedding and Equality Issues
    • The Graying of the Population
    • Changing Attitudes Toward Children
    • The Decline in Teacher Unions
    • Load Shedding and the Day Care Movement
  • 11 Ethical and Policy Issues in Education for Profit
    • Competition Versus Regulation as a Student Safeguard
    • The Outlook for Regulation by "the Profession"
    • Information Issues in Education for Profit
    • Disclosure and School Performance
    • Cross-Subsidization Issues
    • Cross-Subsidization in Education: A Caveat
    • A Contractual Approach To Education
    • Education as Joint Production of Services
    • Education for Profit: A Point of View

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