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My years at The World Bank and discussions with leading education researchers and policy makers suggest two rationales that underpin public sector funding for private schools.
Rationale 1: Private schools produce more learning.
Rationale 2: Private schools are cheaper.
My new post takes on both of these rationales and shows why they are (at best) irrelevant for the policy questions under consideration.
What I hope you will find illuminating is that the arguments do *not* rehash the "correlations are not causality" and "how did you account for selection into private schooling" debates. Throughout, I *assume* that selection problems have been adequately addressed and I show that even then, we are nowhere close to using Rationales 1 and 2 to argue for public funding of private education.