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Dismantling Public Accountability & Transparency in the Name of Accountability & Transparency? « School Finance 101

Dismantling Public Accountability & Transparency in the Name of Accountability & Transparency? « School Finance 101:


Dismantling Public Accountability & Transparency in the Name of Accountability & Transparency?

This post comes about as a follow up to a previous post where I critiqued the rationale of the Students First policy agenda.  It should be noted that the Students First policy agenda is anything but unique. Like DFER, SFER, ALEC or any policy advocacy organization, the SF policy agenda is little more than an aggregation of largely non-original, template policy prescriptions.
Now, I’m not one who goes all in for the lingo of “corporate reform” or one who perceives “privatization” or “market” mechanisms to be inherently evil and contrary to the public good. However, I am someone who believes we should consider carefully the multitude of tradeoffs involved in shifting between publicness and privateness in the