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title = "The Development and Dynamics of Public–Private Partnerships in the Philippines{\textquoteright} Education: A Counterintuitive Case of School Choice, Competition, and Privatization",
abstract = "Educational public–private partnerships (EPPP) have been widely implemented in the Philippines, primarily through the Education Service Contracting (ESC) voucher. Yet, the effects of this voucher on privatization of education, school choice, and competition dynamics remain largely understudied. This article addresses this gap through an investigation of families{\textquoteright} school choice patterns and schools{\textquoteright} logics of action in the Philippines{\textquoteright} education. Paradoxically, despite the pro-private sector impetus of the Philippine government and the implementation of the voucher scheme, the privatization of school provision in the Philippines is diminishing, and the schools receiving the voucher are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the poor families to whom the voucher was initially targeted. In parallel, despite its initial equity focus, the voucher has led to different patterns of school choice among families and to an array of responses by schools, both of which have combined to accentuate school segregation and stratification dynamics—between and within schools.",
keywords = "educational policy, privatization, public–private partnerships: Philippines, school choice, schools{\textquoteright} logics of action, vouchers",
author = "Andreu Termes and Edwards, {D. Brent} and Antoni Verger",
note = "Funding Information: Termes Andreu 1 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3955-9525 Edwards D. Brent Jr. 2 Verger Antoni 3 1 The Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies (IERMB), Spain 2 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA 3 Department of Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain D. Brent Edwards, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1776 University Avenue, Wist Hall 107 Honolulu, HI 96822 USA. Email: brent.edwards@hawaii.edu 11 2019 0895904819886323 {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019 2019 SAGE Publications Educational public–private partnerships (EPPP) have been widely implemented in the Philippines, primarily through the Education Service Contracting (ESC) voucher. Yet, the effects of this voucher on privatization of education, school choice, and competition dynamics remain largely understudied. This article addresses this gap through an investigation of families{\textquoteright} school choice patterns and schools{\textquoteright} logics of action in the Philippines{\textquoteright} education. Paradoxically, despite the pro-private sector impetus of the Philippine government and the implementation of the voucher scheme, the privatization of school provision in the Philippines is diminishing, and the schools receiving the voucher are becoming increasingly unaffordable for the poor families to whom the voucher was initially targeted. In parallel, despite its initial equity focus, the voucher has led to different patterns of school choice among families and to an array of responses by schools, both of which have combined to accentuate school segregation and stratification dynamics—between and within schools. vouchers school choice schools{\textquoteright} logics of action public–private partnerships: Philippines privatization educational policy edited-state corrected-proof The authors want to acknowledge Lovie Moneva for her support during data collection. Declaration of Conflicting Interests The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The authors have received financial support from the IS Academy Education and International Development programme (Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research of the University of Amsterdam, AISSR/UVA), as well as from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs MAEC AECID scholarships{\textquoteright} programme University and Scientific Cooperation for Development 2015/2016 . ORCID iD D. Brent Edwards Jr. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3955-9525 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s) 2019. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0895904819886323",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s estadounidense",
volume = "34",
pages = "91--117",
journal = "Educational Policy",
issn = "0895-9048",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "1",
}