Private school
[1] Unless privately owned they typically have a board of governors and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation.
[3] Some private schools are associated with a particular religious denomination or religion, such as Roman Catholicism, various branches of Protestantism or Judaism.
In the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries including Australia, Canada and New Zealand the use of the term is generally restricted to primary and secondary educational levels, and it is almost never used of universities or other tertiary institutions.
Some such schools teach religious education, together with the usual academic subjects, to impress their particular faith's beliefs and traditions in the students who attend.
Others use the denomination as a general label to describe what the founders based their belief, while still maintaining a fine distinction between academics and religion.
Other religious groups represented in the K–12 private education sector include Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and Orthodox Christians.
The SRS uses exam results from the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy tests, calculates the SRS from a cohort of well-performing schools, and applies this formula to other schools on the assumption that they should be able to achieve similar results from similar funding.
A National School Resourcing Board was charged with the responsibility of independently reviewing each state's compliance with the funding agreement(s).
[26][27] There are also unlicensed private schools that do not follow any national curriculum and do not receive public funding.
Some private Universities in Finland operate without legal mandate and are not overseen by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
[28] [29] The right to create private schools in Germany is in Article 7, Paragraph 4 of the Grundgesetz and cannot be suspended even in a state of emergency.
[30] In Italy education is predominantly public; about one-fifth of schools are private, attended by about one out of 10 Italian schoolchildren.
[40] A lot of criticism towards Iranian government is because of large gap of University entrance Exam success between public and private school students, number private school growth has seen a 15% growth dominating Iranian education sector.
All the state-subsidised fee-charging schools are run by a religious order, e.g., the Society of Jesus or Congregation of Christian Brothers, etc.
As a result, private schools in New Zealand are now largely restricted to the largest cities (Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch) and niche markets.
Private schools are almost fully funded by tuition fees paid by students' parents, but they do receive some government subsidies.
Private schools are generally free to determine their curriculum in accordance with existing laws and regulations.
156, in implementation of the project agreement between the Philippine and United States governments to establish a permanent trust fund that would address the needs of the private education sector in the country.
In Portugal, private schools were traditionally set up by foreign expatriates and diplomats in order to cater for their educational needs.
[56] The official government stance on private tuition is that "it understands parents want the best for their children and that it is their decision whether to engage tutors".
After the abolition of apartheid, the laws governing private education in South Africa changed significantly.
[69] One in four independently educated children come from postcodes with the national average income or below, and one in three receive assistance with school fees.
[70] Evidence from a major longitudinal study suggests that British independent schools provide advantages in educational attainment and access to top universities.
[85] These typically require them to follow the spirit of regulations concerning the content of courses in an attempt to provide a level of education equal to or better than that available in public schools.
In the nineteenth century, as a response to the perceived domination of the public school systems by Protestant political and religious ideas, many Roman Catholic parish churches, dioceses and religious orders established schools, which operate entirely without government funding.
[86] In many parts of the United States, after the 1954 decision in the landmark court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that demanded United States schools desegregate "with all deliberate speed", local families organized a wave of private "Christian academies".
One of the most common topics of debate is whether or not the ability to select a private institution takes funding away from public schools.
These programs and similar incentives exist to incentivize school choice and take stress off of state educational funding.
Some of the most relevant Supreme Court case law on this is as follows: Runyon v. McCrary, 427 U.S. 160 (1976); Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972); Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925); Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390 (1923).
There is a potential conflict between the values espoused in the above cited cases and the limitations set forward in Article 29 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is below described.
