Districts Tap Private Firms for Support Services
Six out of 10 school systems have considered hiring private companies to run their districts or at least some portion of them. So says a new National School Boards Association survey.
However, privatization remains most popular in support areas such as custodial services, transportation, and food operations. A majority of the districts want to keep control of academics, despite a few highly publicized experiments in which private companies have taken over...
This article is available to subscribers only.
To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article.
Already have an account? Please login.
Subscribe to Education Week and Save
Get a full year and save up to 45%!
Most Popular Stories
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
- Program Coordinator
- Institute for Educational Advancement, South Pasadena, CA
- Principals and Headmasters
- Boston Public Schools, Boston, MA
- Chief Academic Officer
- Adams 14, Commerce City, CO
- Middle School Language Arts Teacher
- TEAM Schools, Newark, NJ
- Superintendent
- Pinellas County Schools, Pinellas County, FL
Sponsored Advertiser Links
