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  • Home
  • Privatization undermines racial justice
  • The stakes are higher than ever
  • The Privatization Playbook
  • The Massachusetts web of profiteers
  • Sectors at risk
    • Utilities
    • Education
    • Public Transit
  • Fighting Back
    • The Pacheco Law, or Taxpayer Protection Act, of 1993
    • Protections at the municipal level: TPA 2.0
From the MBTA’s recent outsourcing of its cash-counting operations to the heavily-funded campaign to lift the cap on charter schools, Massachusetts is witness to a push for greater privatization of services that traditionally have been public, or government-provided. Privatization advocates tout cost-saving efficiencies and higher performance of privately-run services, but experts on a recent panel discussion about privatization in Massachusetts said that evidence for such positive outcomes is lacking and that relinquishing public accountability for essential services is cause for alarm.
- Baystate Banner - November 30, 2016

Panel, report decry push for privatization in Massachusetts

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