OBJECTIVES We examined the extent to which schools in the United States have health-promoting policies, programs, and facilities. METHODS We analyzed data from the School Health Policies and Programs Study 2000. RESULTS We found that public schools (vs private and Catholic schools), urban schools (vs rural and suburban schools), and schools with larger enrollments (vs smaller schools) had m...

A comparative account for job satisfaction analysis was conducted between public and private school teachers (n=300) in Pakistan Administrative Kashmir. The study was primarily based on teachers’ perception to assess work environment conduciveness at schools and their consequent impacts. Nine key determinants were used in the survey as delineated by Lester, (1987) in Teacher’s Job Satisfaction ...

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to publicly or privately funded schools. Four m...