Time after time governments look to the private sector to bail them out of financial and performance failures that are a result of their own incompetence.
The No Child Left Behind legislation established performance standards for public education. Many of those schools that cannot meet these standards are looking to privately owned educational businesses to improve their performance. In Memphis, privately owned tutoring businesses have become a growth industry with the public school system becoming their biggest customer.
One irony of such privatization efforts is that the same government agencies that cannot perform in the first place, often serve in an oversight function over the private businesses they hired to pull their bacon out of the fire.
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