Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance

Assessing the Effects of Competition Upon Public School Student Achievement in Washington State

Bibliographic Data

ID6329776
AuthorsChristopher A Simon (0000-0001-8294-7190, Oregon State University), Nicholas P Lovrich (0000-0002-9173-547X, Washington State University)
Year1996
Volume24
Issue4
Pages666-675
Publication date1996-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1541-0072.1996.tb01655.x
OpenAlexW2154216904
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Advocates of education privatization often take two general approaches to denigrating commonplace public school monopoly service provision assignments. One general argument is that public school administrators are self‐interested rent‐seekers, which is evidenced by the ever‐enlarging bureaucracies they operate. This argument has been roundly criticized by Kevin Smith and Kenneth Meier (1994, 1995) in two methodologically rigorous analyses. The second general argument is grounded in the assumption that public school student performance will improve if public schools are forced to compete for enrollment with private school alternatives. The evidence regarding this claim of privatization advocates has been contested in a systematic study of North Carolina school districts, but requires further analysis to determine if these findings can be generalized to school districts writ large. Such a replication study is presented here, with findings reported that are in agreement with those of Newmark (1995

Argument (complex analysis · Bureaucracy · Economics · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · School choice · Sociology · Writ · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance

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