Behar, Anurag
(2016)
What is public education.
Learning Curve (25).
pp. 2-4.
Abstract
What is public about Public Education? Before we
go to that question, we can safely reaffirm that
there is a wide and growing agreement now on the
usage of language, that what were called Public
Schools in UK and India, are private schools, mostly
for the economically well-off and not included in
the ambit of Public Education in any way.
Schools that are funded by tax revenues generated
by the State and administered (‘managed’, ‘run’)
by the State are called Public Schools. Here I use
schools in a broad sense, to include educational
institutions from pre-primary levels to college.
The word ‘State’ includes its various organs, even
those which may have a fairly autonomous nature,
but are eventually part of the State system. The
funding may have some element of resources that
are raised by the school itself, through fees and
other sources, but is substantially provided by the
state from its tax revenues. Such a system of Public
Schools is what constitutes Public Education.
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