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Public Education Under New Management: A Typology of Educational Privatization Applied to New York City's Restructuring

Peabody Journal of Education: Issues of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Vol. 84, No. 3

Janelle Scott,  University of California, Berkeley
Catherine DiMartino,  New York University

ABSTRACT
Educational privatization is rapidly expanding in many urban school districts, altering the social, political, and economic dynamics of educational policy and leadership. Yet many adherents cast privatization primarily as a fiscal or economic alternative to traditional public school management, ignoring these broader alterations. Drawing from a review of the educational privatization literature, as well as an analysis of current privatization reforms, this article offers an original typology of educational privatization and applies the typology to the reforms underway in New York City. It concludes with a discussion of the implications of this typology and privatization reforms for educational leadership practice and policy.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Janelle Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and a 2008-09 National Academy of Education-Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.  Editor of School choice and diversity: What the evidence says (2005 Teachers College Press), she studies racial politics of public education, the politics of school choice, and the role of private sector actors and elites in shaping urban public education policies. 

Catherine DiMartino earned a Ph.D. in Education from The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Her dissertation was Public-Private Partnerships and the Small Schools Movement: A New Form of Education Management, and her current research focuses on privatization, market-based reforms and mayoral takeover of urban school systems.