Privatizing Benefit and Socializing Cost: Market Education as Rent Seeking

Fitch, E. Frank; Hulgin, Kathleen M.

doi:10.1007/s11256-018-0470-0

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“…To what degree nonprofit charter schools are rent-seekers is somewhat unclear as the evidence is mostly anecdotal. Potential indicators of rent-seeking include charter schools and CMOs lobbying politicians and charter authorizers to receive greater funding, below-average teacher compensation, not always transparent payments to service providers, and reductions in services for high cost students (see Fitch & Hulgin, 2018). Whether these arguments apply for all charter schools or only describe the behavior of some operators, as charter school proponents argue (The Center for Popular Democracy, 2014), is still a matter of debate.…”

Section: Charter School Spending—theoretical Arguments and Empirical mentioning

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The Impact of Government Contracting Out on Spending: The Case of Public Education in New Orleans

Buerger

Harris

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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In this study, we start with developing a theoretical framework incorporating theories from the contracting literature and adapt them to the unusual case of nonprofit charter schools, which yields several seemingly novel theoretical insights. In contrast to earlier studies, we use a quasi-experimental research design, the synthetic control group approach, to test the impact of contracting on spending for public schooling in New Orleans. Using detailed information on spending, our empirical analysis shows that contracting increases total operating spending. The additional funds were used to increase administrative spending, including both the number and salaries of administrators. Fewer resources were devoted to instruction. Although the number of teachers was largely unchanged, per-teacher salaries and benefits dropped. We utilize the results to complement the theory of contracting with regard to outsourcing based on funding formulas and the mix of inputs chosen by contractors.

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Section: Charter School Spending—theoretical Arguments and Empirical mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Government Contracting Out on Spending: The Case of Public Education in New Orleans

Buerger

Harris

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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“…Usually, they are actors/local elites both formal and informal with strong power and relation capacities so that they can direct economic policies to serve the means of accumulating profits that have been determined -usually only within their internal elite network so that it often hinders mutual prosperity (Haselmann 2018). This practice is considered unnatural because it creates injustice (Fitch & Hulgin 2018), from the conspiracy of entrepreneurs and rulers (Ma'arif 2011), one of them is through legal lobbying as well as bribery and pressure (Basin et al 2019).…”

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Social and Political Issues on Sustainable Development in the Post Covid-19 Crisis

Sukmana¹,

Salahudin²,

Robbie³

et al. 2022

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Pandemics are a real threat to mankind because the spread of such outbreaks has a wide coverage not limited to only one or two countries but affecting almost all countries in the world. As a threat, a pandemic has indirect implications for social, economic and political conditions both at domestic and international levels. Thus, collective and comprehensive efforts are needed in responding to and preventing the expansion of infections caused by viruses, including Covid-19. Since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March 2020, many countries have tried their best to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. Nevertheless, only few have succeeded in responding to this pandemic. Then it tends to create new problems, for example the disruption of the social and economic order. The heterogeneous social order has resulted in a lot of premature speculation related to the Covid-19 virus, this causes many people to tend to ignore it.This neglectful attitude itself is a problem within humankind due to the lack of information and knowledge, especially since the characteristics of Covid-19 are a quickly-spread type of flu. The implication for the economic order is the cessation of the flow of production as well as discontinuation of goods and services transfer. It is because the virus spreads through the air, so that the fear of infection is definitely great. In addition, the implementation of policies or regulations that are tentative in nature has caused political turmoil. These three implications can at least illustrate that the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the existing order. As a result, governments must work hard to deal with and prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus.The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and the Faculty of Economic and Business, University of Muhammadiyah Malang held an international conference under the name

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Pipelines of schooling: Pathways to the United States and rent-seeking practices by education agents

Chen

2023

International Journal of Educational Development

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Privatizing Benefit and Socializing Cost: Market Education as Rent Seeking

Cited by 6 publications

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The Impact of Government Contracting Out on Spending: The Case of Public Education in New Orleans

The Impact of Government Contracting Out on Spending: The Case of Public Education in New Orleans

Social and Political Issues on Sustainable Development in the Post Covid-19 Crisis

Pipelines of schooling: Pathways to the United States and rent-seeking practices by education agents

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