That's right. The invisible hand has not been a magic wand, if by that
one expects that every for-profit or nonprofit school manager is going
to outperform every government school manager.
In general, the idea behind markets is they throw a lot of mud at the
wall; the good stuff sticks, the bad slides off. The School District's
new CEO, Dr. Diane Ackerman, seems to be moving forcefully toward Act 2,
where the bad slides off. The School District has deals with six
different outside managers, each handling multiple schools.
Back in the neighborhood, all the partnership schools that serve
University City belong to the University of Pennsylvania partnership.
Those are Lea and Wilson. Penn was the only partner that won three-year
contract extensions for all its schools.
Although administratively it is part of the Penn partnership, Penn
Alexander has a separate contract, one that runs for five years, I believe.
-- Tony West
Privatizing them doesn't seem to work. "Outside managers" are no better than
the public system, despite costing more. At least according to this article:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20556464.html
Why oh why does the magical invisible hand keep failing us like this!?
Andrew
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