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Originally Posted by GGG
Sweden has a pretty good system.
They allow a set government amount per student to be directed to a school provided they charge under the max amount of additional fees. They also have a government run program.
This way the cost of schooling is born by the government but you still get the benefits of competition and private delivery.
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My understanding is that Sweden's system has been a mixed bag at best. The idea initially was that there'd be more individual locally run schools, sort of a cottage industry for education, but it ended up being a bunch of equity firms and huge corporations running many of the private schools in the country.
The idea of increased efficiency hasn't really been borne out either, especially when private schools have to devote portions of their government funding to things like advertising and profits rather than actually putting the money into the product. One of the effects is that teacher salaries have dropped and it has gotten where student demand for teaching programs has sunk to the point that they'll basically take anyone who applies.
http://www.economist.com/news/europe...wedens-schools