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Byrnes, Vaughan – American Journal of Education, 2009
This study evaluates the impact of the privatization of education services in the Philadelphia School District, using an interrupted time series design. The sample observes 88 middle-grades schools, beginning with the 1996-97 school year, and finds that, by 2006, four years postintervention, the achievement growth rate of schools run by…
Descriptors: Privatization, Context Effect, Academic Achievement, Educational Administration

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