PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM YEAR ONE OF A THREE-YEAR RANDOMIZED EVALUATION Can a Public-Private Partnership Improve Liberia’s Schools? PHOTO: DACKERMUE DOLO / IPA After one year, public schools managed by private operators raised student learning by 60 percent...
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PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM YEAR ONE OF A THREE-YEAR RANDOMIZED EVALUATION Can a Public-Private Partnership Improve Liberia’s Schools? PHOTO: DACKERMUE DOLO / IPA After one year, public schools managed by private operators raised student learning by 60 percent compared to standard public schools. But costs were high, performance varied across operators, and contracts authorized the largest operator to push excess pupils and under-performing teachers into other government schools. “Partnership Schools” are free, public schools managed by private operators • Liberia’s education system lags behind most of runs ordinary public schools on a budget of the world in both access and quality. Net primary approximately $50 (USD) per pupil, ranking 145th enrollment was only 38 percent in 2015, and in 2013, among 161 countries for which recent World Bank among adult women who finished elementary school, data is available. PSL operators received an additional only 25 percent could read a complete sente
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