The Swindle of Innovative Educational Finance

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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 e

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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

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Kenneth J. Saltman is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. His books include Scripted Bodies: Corporate Power, Smart Technologies, and the Undoing of Public Education and The Politics of Education: A Critical Introduction.