Multi-National For-Profit Corporations to Provide Public Education?
Since 1964 diversion of billions of dollars of public funding from the public to the private education sector has undermined public education.
Since the 1990s -with
private/public partnerships;
shared facilities;
independent public schools;
and refusal to build new public schools in developing areas
attempts are being made to privatise public education. Australian parents are expected to mortgage their children’s future in a ‘user-pays’ economic system in which ‘choice’ - with ‘no choice’ for the poor - reigns supreme.
BUT
In 2013 conservative Australian governments are going one step further.
They are considering blatant profiteering in the primary and secondary as well as the tertiary sector of education.
Katherine Feeney brisbanetimes.com.au urban affairs reporter and blogger reported on 28 January 2013 that the Queensland Newman Government’s Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek is considering the introduction of for-profit primary and high schools. He sees the outsourcing of the educational opportunities of a nation’s children this as a logical extension of the principle of ‘choice.’