Reply to O'Neill: The privatisation of public schooling in New Zealand

In a recent contribution to this journal, John O'Neill (2011) argues that recent privatisation practices in New Zealand public schooling are evidence of a small, but growing, influence of neo-liberalism on New Zealand's public education. The focus in his paper is on the active enablement of non-government provision of public education through, for example, awarding public funding to private companies to deliver educational services (rather than the withdrawal of government support for the provision of education altogether).