Thus government-run schools face growing competition from independent and parochial schools, keeping them on their toes.
These, the government claims, genuinely allow private firms to run schools largely outside local-authority control.
They are three Christian-run schools and the American International School, with a total enrollment of 3, 500.
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Still women run schools, sometimes going underground, claiming they are offering only sewing lessons.
Academies are state funded, but privately-run schools which operate independently of their local education authority.
Studies have found that they have better results, and also spur improvements in nearby state-run schools.
Mr Cavallo has cut transfers to the provinces, which run schools, hospitals and police forces.
The Lebanese government continues to run schools, courts and the police inside the occupied zone.
Religious orders, chiefly nuns and sisters, however run schools and universities as well as health care systems.
Since that initial leap of faith, Lambeth has become nonchalant about stepping aside and letting others run schools.
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The majority of students in Jewish-run schools in Mumbai are Muslims because they are located in Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods.
Ms Bull added that complying with nutritional standards of school food was compulsory for all local authority-run schools.
ASER's survey also suggests that, with a few sensible steps, big improvements are possible even in state-run schools.
Parents will be cautious until they can see some shining successes, and will be frightened off if badly run schools collapse.
Chile has made a big effort to increase access to education, partly by allowing private entities to run schools and universities.
The French Embassy in Tunisia said all French-run schools in the North African country would be closed on Friday and Saturday.
But what about the organisations that run schools - local education authorities?
From the same source as the state run schools, the local municipality.
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Independent of local councils, academies are privately run schools that are funded by the state and directly accountable to the Department for Education.
In 2005 Tower Hamlets turned down an offer from Goldman Sachs, a bank, to sponsor an academy, saying it could run schools just fine itself.
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Other bits do not go far enough: it is foolish to rule out letting for-profit companies run schools and wrong to exempt the NHS from cuts.
But he said the NUT had "major reservations" about free schools and academies, which he said were not as accountable to the community as council-run schools.
During the call for better support for staff who have been attacked, teachers accused the local councils who run schools of paying lip service to help for staff.
Thousands of other districts, however, can run schools broadly as they wish, either because they were never deemed to be segregated or because they have reformed to the courts' satisfaction.
Shanghai claims last year to have become the first city in China to provide free education for all migrant children, mostly in state-run schools, with some in subsidised private ones.
In office this vague idea has formalised into radical decentralisation: handing power to parents to run schools, to general practitioners to run the NHS, to local voters to pick police commissioners.
Two researchers, Karthik Muralidharan of the University of California at San Diego and Venkatesh Sundararaman of the World Bank, tested that idea in 300 state-run schools in Andhra Pradesh in India.
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