And the coming election.
First, Democrats are now largely a party of providers of government services (public school teachers, government employees unions) and people dependent on those services. By deepening the culture of dependency, Democrats expand their political appeal — and serve the left’s traditional preference for equality of condition over freedom.
Second, Republican strong-government conservatism contracts the dependency culture and expands the sphere of choices, thereby enhancing the individual’s competence and responsibility. This validates Republicans’ claims to power — and serves the right’s traditional preference for freedom over legislated equality.
Not So Fast 
The only thing that can be said about for-profit services is that they are done to make a profit for the owners/shareholders. But it is a stretch of logic to say that in all cases these services are provided more efficiently by a private firm than by a government agency. We must judiciously choose which activities are for profit and which are done without a profit motive.
I’m a public schools teacher and there are many things that need to be done, many reforms that can be made, many excellent, tested solutions to educational problems in our schools.
To apply privatizing philosophies to everything is careless and crude. Simple solutions for complex problems only work in editorial columns written by people who never taught a class or ran a school. Start with changing who runs schools and how. And this doesn’t have to be done by selling the school to Edison.