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The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance

Kenneth J Saltman author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Published:17th Oct '18

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How “innovative” finance schemes skim public wealth while hijacking public governance

Charter school expansion. Vouchers. Scholarship tax credit programs. The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance offers a new social theory to explain why these and other privatization policies and programs win support despite being unsupported by empirical evidence. Kenneth J. Saltman details how, under the guise of innovation, cost savings, and corporate social responsibility, new and massive neoliberal educational privatization schemes have been widely adopted in the United States. From a trillion-dollar charter school bubble to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to celebrities branding private schools, Saltman ultimately connects such schemes to the country’s current crisis of truth and offers advice for resistance.

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"Most clearly it will appeal to an audience with strong views against privatization, but this work is also worth reading for those who favor privatization as it highlights a number of areas where improvements could be made in order to better promote the public good." —Teachers College Record

ISBN: 9781517900892

Dimensions: 178mm x 127mm x 6mm

Weight: unknown

124 pages