Privately-run schools have the equal legal status of public schools.

民办学校与公办学校具有同等的法律地位。

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Article 46 Privately-run schools shall enjoy preferential taxation policy formulated by the State.

第四十六条民办学校享受国家规定的税收优惠政策。

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Article 9 Public organizations that establish privately-run schools shall possess the qualifications of a legal person.

第九条举办民办学校的社会组织，应当具有法人资格。

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Academies are state funded, but privately-run schools which operate independently of their local education authority.

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It urges the Department for Education to tighten its financial grip on these privately run but state-funded schools.

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Critics have called free schools, which are state-funded but privately run, socially divisive and unaccountable.

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