INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS FOR THE POOR
Keywords:
private schools, policy of aid agencies, public policy, voucher program.Abstract
This article examines what public policy should be regarding affordable private schools, including the policies of development aid agencies seeking to help low- and middle-income countries, as well as relevant public policies for national and local governments. The article concludes with several recommendations. One recommendation is that even though children from low-income families attend private schools, they remain citizens; therefore, they should not be excluded from poverty alleviation strategies. A second recommendation is to expand state statistics functions to routinely include non-public schools in calculations of enrollment rates. Finally, the paper does not recommend a voucher or other publicly funded school choice program because the public sector should remain the primary conduit for public education. However, this raises questions about the limits of the public sector in providing high quality education and whether these limitations should be more openly acknowledged.
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