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Corporatizing Rural Schools

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This chapter examines the privatization agenda of neoliberal venture philanthropists. It focuses specifically on the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, and the numerous research and policy reports they have released. The reports are critically examined to show the underlying ideology and the attempts defund public schools. The chapter describes these reports against the backdrop of the broader rural issues discussed in the previous chapters and how the venture philanthropy movement is another part of the overall trend of neoliberal modernization that has been taking place since the birth of industry in the USA, and also the ways in which venture philanthropy has grown out of the phenomenon of economic need driving education.

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Cervone, J.A. (2018). Corporatizing Rural Schools. In: Corporatizing Rural Education. New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64462-2_2

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