A number of developing countries are introducing school-based management reforms that are aimed at empowering principals and teachers. Many of these reforms also stregthen parential involvement in schools. School-based management has the potential to become a low-cost way of making public education spending more efficient by increasing a accountability. Decentralized Decision-making in schools …
The evidence on the impact in terms of school performance, targeting, and cost of public private partnerships is mixed. Some evidence suggests that voucher schools outperform public schools, but the difference between both types of schools is not as large as one might think, and is often smaller than simple statistics suggest. Evidence on faith-based schools tends to show slightly better perfor…