Murdoch delves into for-profit education October 20, 2011 - PrivatizationWatch.Org

October 20, 2011 - PrivatizationWatch.Org:

Headlines
IN: The Indiana Toll Road: A model for privatization?
WA: Costco's $22 million sets record for initiative spending
NE: Monthly price tag high for out-of-state placement of state wards
NJ: N.J. considering 42 new charter schools
OH: Dems ask conflict-of-interest probe of Kvamme
NY: Rate NYC's privately owned public spaces
Murdoch delves into for-profit education

News summaries
IN: The Indiana Toll Road: A model for privatization?
Public-private partnerships have been portrayed as a miracle cure
for the country’s crumbling infrastructure. Indiana’s experience may
prove otherwise...Fast-forward five years, and it’s clear that the
deal was anything but a giveaway. The investors, not the state, are
suffering under the expense of the deal. One report from the
business news service Debtwire suggests that, by next year, the
project’s partners -- Australian bank Macquarie and Spanish firm
Cintra -- may not be able to make the debt payments tied to the