These, the government claims, genuinely allow private firms to run schools largely outside local-authority control.
The Lebanese government continues to run schools, courts and the police inside the occupied zone.
Chile has made a big effort to increase access to education, partly by allowing private entities to run schools and universities.
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.
Or how about the experiment suggested by Sir Peter Newsam, a former head of London University's Institute of Education, for initiative-free zones, where head teachers are left to run schools without constant meddling from local authorities and ministers?
As well as TransMilenio, he built more than 200km of cycle paths, a network of public libraries and got private schools to run new public schools in the poorer south of the city.
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One way forward is to encourage new sorts of educators to run public schools.
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Indeed, while politicians debate whether public money should go to privately run grade schools and high schools, they're already sending cash to private nursery schools.
Perhaps you could be one of the schools to run your own "live events" web page on 24 March - by ringing up other schools to find out what they are doing and writing it up for your website.
On January 6th Professor Michael Barber, its special adviser on education, announced that private firms would be invited to run failing state schools.
Wokingham Borough Council has submitted planning applications for three schools, and two are open to offers to be run as free schools or academies.
This will reduce pressure on schools to improve their performance, create a perverse incentive for parents to send their children to run-of-the-mill schools to secure a university place, and guarantee that many poorly prepared students will have a miserable time at university.
These will be encouraged to take over failing schools and then to run them under contract to the state.
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.
In their version, parental ballots could be held and local-government officials would have to sack head teachers or hand schools over to be run by more successful ones, if that was what parents said they wanted.
Time is running out for applications to run two new free schools in Berkshire.
They need relatively small amounts of energy to light schools, run health services, increase production and create jobs.
The rules allow these schools to run their own appeals, says the watchdog.
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Councillor Charlotte Haitham Taylor refused to confirm details of applications to run the other two schools, but said there had been a "variety of interest".
Mr Thomas suggests that the most obvious solution would be for local authority appeal panels, which currently hear appeals for the schools they still run, to handle those for all state schools in their area, including academies and faith schools.
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The Conservative-run council said smaller, rural schools were more expensive to run and the change to funding meant its ability to support them had been "diminished".
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Some educational charities are merging with each other and buying up struggling schools run by sole proprietors, to create chains of schools with shared administrative costs.
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.
Mr Cavallo has cut transfers to the provinces, which run schools, hospitals and police forces.
Inspired by examples in Sweden, they want to give parents government cash to create and run entirely new schools.
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The education secretary was then asked about the "aspiration" that a second-term Conservative-led government would allow free schools to be run for profit.
Kunskapsskolan, a Swedish for-profit company that runs more than 30 free schools, is also interested, even though the Tories would not allow schools to be run for profit.
The state has since brought in charter operators to run two low-performing schools, and parents told him, "we'd be out of here" had that not happened, Mr. Finegold said.
Entrance to an exclusive private preschool is a painful right of passage for thousands of upscale New York moms every year, kicking off with a mad rush of speed dialing early in the morning the day after Labor Day to secure applications before schools run out of them.
Eleven of the schools were selected to run workshops designed to help about 700 teenagers seen as at high risk.
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