This report demonstrates how three of the Pioneer Institute’s leading claims that their education reforms create greater equity in schools are not only unfounded but that these reforms disproportionately harm communities of color and immigrant…
Privatization creates an incentive structure driven by profit instead of by the needs of the community. The oft-stated aim of privatization is to increase competition in order to drive down costs and increase efficiency, but the markets for service contracts do not behave like idealized competitive markets. PRA monitors Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute, which is focused on dismantling the public good via privatization not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country.