Open AccessBeyond the Public-Private Nexus
Author(s) -
Walter Fernando Balser,
Hardin L. K. Coleman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of transformative leadership and policy studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2331-9437
pISSN - 2151-5735
DOI - 10.36851/jtlps.v8i2.2257
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , general partnership , context (archaeology) , private sector , accountability , capital (architecture) , space (punctuation) , public relations , public–private partnership , political science , public administration , sociology , economic growth , business , economics , engineering , finance , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , law , embedded system
Increasingly, school-based partnerships have been tied to education reform and the entrance of private capital into the PK-12 space, most prominently from a philanthropy sector that contributes nearly $60 billion annually to education causes. As a result, what may have been an at-will school-business partnership in the 1980s may today resemble an embedded multi-partner arrangement around professional development, teacher evaluation, or turnaround support. In this paper, a new framework is introduced to situate school-based collaborations in a contemporary context, notably acknowledging that schools today live in a new “blended capital” reality involving diverse sector influences, multiple sources of private and public funding, and therefore multiple measures of efficacy and accountability.