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January 11, 2012, 1:17pmUniversity of Kentucky Smart to Explore Private Sector for New Campus Housing
December 15, 2011, 10:50amAs my colleague Leonard Gilroy and I explain today in our Reason.org commentary, University of Kentucky Smart to Explore Private Sector for New Campus Housing, ongoing state budget deficits and challenges are putting pressure on state university systems and prompting them to explore ways to cut costs. The University of Kentucky (UK) may become the latest university to embrace public-private partnerships.
University of Kentucky Smart to Explore Private Sector for New Campus Housing
Public-private partnerships are saving taxpayers money and helping universities provide better services.
December 15, 2011Ongoing state budget deficits and challenges are putting pressure on state university systems and prompting them to explore ways to cut costs. Higher education officials are desperately seeking ways to keep services, maintain facilities and find less costly and more efficient ways to build and modernize the dorms, academic buildings and other capital intensive facilities needed. To do this, some are turning to public-private partnerships, arrangements in which public entities contract with private sector firms for the financing, design, construction, operation and/or maintenance of public assets.
Surprise, Surprise, California Gov. Jerry Brown Calls for More Tax Increases
December 6, 2011, 6:07pmTo the surprise of no one, California Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled his plan calling for more tax increases to address the state's structural deficit. The proposal, for which signatures are now being gathered with a goal of placing a ballot measure before voters in the November 2012 election, includes a half-cent sales tax increase and an income tax rate increase of one to two percentage points for those earning at least $250,000 a year, and would remain in effect for five years.
Not All Student Loans Lead to Good Jobs
November 30, 2011, 4:20pmIf a student chooses a major for which there is limited demand, attends a school with an undistinguished reputation, earns poor grades due to lack of study and fails to conduct an effective job search campaign, their education will also prove to be a malinvestment.
Charter Schools more like Vouchers: New Jersey Edition
November 16, 2011, 12:37pmLegislation signed by Gov. Chris Christie will allow private schools in struggling districts to become charter schools.
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State Government Privatization Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
Leonard Gilroy, Harris Kenny, Shirley Ybarra and Tyler Millhouse
February 18, 2011 - School Choice, Charter Schools, and Trends In Educational Privatization
Education Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
Lisa Snell and Leonard Gilroy
February 15, 2011 - Fix the Schools
Close failing schools, open charter schools and replicate great schools
Policy Brief 87
Lisa Snell
March 15, 2010 - Ten Ideas to Fix Cleveland's Schools
Turn failing schools into charters, empower parents and principals
Policy Brief 86
Lisa Snell
March 15, 2010 - Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009
Examining the school districts using student-based "backpack" funding to improve results
Lisa Snell
April 30, 2009 - No Choices Left Behind
Competitive Models to Restructure California's Lowest-Performing Schools
Lisa Snell
December 12, 2006 - Analysis of California's Proposition 88
Education Funding, Real Property Parcel Tax, Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute
Lisa Snell
October 18, 2006 - Assessing Proposals for Preschool and Kindergarten
Essential Information for Parents, Taxpayers and Policymakers
Darcy Olsen and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2006 - Is Universal Preschool Beneficial? An Assessment of RAND Corporation's Analysis and the Proposals for California
May 1, 2006 - The Case Against Universal Preschool in California
Lisa Snell
February 22, 2006 - Driving More Money into the Classroom
The Promise of Shared Services
William D. Eggers, Lisa Snell, Robert Wavra and Adrian Moore
October 1, 2005 - California's K-12 Education Primer
Lisa Snell
May 1, 2005 - School Accountability Reforms Only Work With Parental Involvement
Chuck Poochigian
March 1, 2005 - School Violence and No Child Left Behind
Best Practices to Keep Kids Safe
Lisa Snell
January 1, 2005 - Addition and Subtraction
State and Local Regulatory Obstacles to Opening a New Private School
Bahaa Seireg
December 1, 2004 - Special Education Accountability
Structural Reform to Help CA Charter Schools Make the Grade
Lisa Snell
July 1, 2004 - Education Management Organizations
Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation
Guilbert C. Hentschke, Scot Oschman and Lisa Snell
May 1, 2002 - School Vouchers As A Legal Sanction
Lisa Snell
December 1, 2001 - Revenue and Results
How Student Achievement Gains Can Save the Private Education Industry
Lisa Snell
October 1, 2001 - Workplace Charter Schools
Florida Blazes the Trail
Lisa Snell
May 1, 2001 - Response to Bush Education Plan: School Vouchers are Needed to Enforce Bush's Accountability Program
E-Brief 110
Lisa Snell
January 1, 2001 - Private Options to Help Students Read
Lisa Snell
December 1, 2000 - Innovative School Facility Partnerships
Downtown, Airport, and Retail Space
Matthew D. Taylor and Lisa Snell
December 1, 2000 - Remedial Education Reform
Private Alternatives to Traditional Title I
Lisa Snell
March 1, 2000 - Balancing Accountability and Local Control
State Intervention for Financial and Academic Stability
Richard C. Seder
March 1, 2000 - Satellite Charter Schools
Addressing the School Facilities Crunch Through Public Private Partnerships
Richard C. Seder
April 1, 1999 - Pennsylvania School Finance
Out of the Courts, Into the Legislature
Richard C. Seder
October 1, 1998 - Bilingual Education
Reading, Writing & Rhetoric
Richard C. Seder
May 1, 1998 - Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Policy Study 234
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
January 1, 1998 - School Violence Prevention
Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
Alexander Volokh and Lisa Snell
October 1, 1997 - Alternative Teacher Organizations
Evolution of Professional Associations
David W. Kirkpatrick
September 1, 1997 - Charter School Innovations
Keys to Effective Charter Reform
Theodor Rebarber
July 1, 1997 - The Education Innovators
Inspiring Words from Can Do Educators
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1996 - Using Contractors to Cook, Clean, and Drive the Bus
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1996 - Total Costing for School Transportation Service
How the San Diego City Schools Missed the Bus
Janet R. Beales
December 1, 1995 - Given the Choice
A Study of the PAVE Program and School Choice in Milwaukee
Janet R. Beales and Richard W. Wahl
January 1, 1995 - Teacher, Inc.
A Private Practice Option for Educators
Janet R. Beales
October 1, 1994 - Doing More with Less
Competitive Contracting for School Support Services
Janet R. Beales
September 1, 1994 - School Voucher Programs in the United States
Implications and Applications for California
Janet R. Beales
February 1, 1994 - Special Education
Expenditures and Obligations
Janet R. Beales
July 1, 1993 - Satellite Schools
The Private Provision of School Infrastructure
Janet R. Beales
January 1, 1993 - Survey of Education Vouchers and Their Budgetary Impact on California
Janet R. Beales
August 1, 1992 - Public-Private Partnerships
The Private Sector and Innovation in Education
Anna David
July 1, 1992
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- Surprise, Surprise, California Gov. Jerry Brown Calls for More Tax Increases (12/6)
- Not All Student Loans Lead to Good Jobs (11/30)
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