The educational reforms of the last decades gave birth to a new distribution of power that lead towards the transformation of education management and pose a great challenge to the system of public education. Since then, public education is given the seat of the accused by the media, corporate lobby and parents. Indeed, the corporate world, after having sewn the seeds of doubt about the effectiveness of the public system, is trying, through its actions and the positions it takes, to appropriate education and to impose upon it a model based on market ideology.

The author proposes a critical study of the ideological foundations of this attempt at commercialization, as well as the different management solutions proposed by those who support this ideology, such as parental choice, school vouchers, the school franchise, the chartered school and total quality management.

Although the phenomenon of the commercialization of education presents a serious threat to public education, we are forced to take note of the proposed solution, which offers new perspectives for the renewal of the current system.