The efficiency of the public education system in Kuwait

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeem A. Burney ◽  
Othman E. Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
The Public

The “Fed-up Taxpayer”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Teacher Unions ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Public Education System ◽  
Teacher Strikes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Teacher ◽  
American Cities

This chapter chronicles the new reality faced by urban teacher unions after the emergence of austerity regimes in many American cities. It charts teacher strikes in St. Louis (1979) and Philadelphia (1980 and 1981). In each case, teacher unions faced staunch taxpayer resistance to salary increases, and in the case of Philadelphia, a mayor who dealt with massive budget deficits by reneging on a collectively-bargained contract. As importantly, in Philadelphia, opponents of the “unproductive” urban poor and unionized teachers began to imagine market reforms of the public education system. The chapter concludes by documenting the emergence of vouchers in order to understand the mounting challenge of neoliberalism to American public education.

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