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’ school choice patterns and schools’ logics of action in the Philippines’ 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.

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菲律宾教育中公私伙伴关系的发展和动力：学校选择、竞争和私有化的反直觉案例

教育公私合作 (EPPP) 已在菲律宾广泛实施，主要是通过教育服务承包 (ESC) 代金券。然而，这种优惠券对教育私有化、学校选择和竞争动态的影响在很大程度上仍未得到充分研究。本文通过调查菲律宾教育中家庭的学校选择模式和学校的行动逻辑来解决这一差距。矛盾的是，尽管菲律宾政府支持私营部门并实施了代金券计划，但菲律宾的学校私有化程度正在减弱，而且获得代金券的学校越来越难以为获得代金券的贫困家庭所负担。最初是有针对性的。与此同时，尽管最初关注股权，