TY - BOOK ID - 137274464 TI - Philippines Private Provision, Public Purpose : A Review of the Government's Education Service Contracting Program. PY - 2011 PB - Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Class Size KW - Curriculum KW - Early Childhood KW - Early Childhood Education KW - Education KW - Education For All KW - Elementary Education KW - Enrollment Rates KW - Expenditures KW - Primary Education KW - Private Education KW - Quality of Education KW - Research Agenda KW - Scholarships KW - School Attendance KW - School Construction KW - Secondary Education KW - Teachers KW - Textbooks UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137274464 AB - The Philippines has one of the largest public-private partnership programs in education in the world, serving more than 567,500 students who represent almost 9 percent of the 6.5 million high school students in 2009. The Government of the Philippines explicitly recognizes the complementary roles played by public and private schools in the education system. The Education Service Contracting (ESC) program aims to increase access to quality basic education at the secondary level by extending financial assistance from the public budget to 'poor but deserving' elementary school graduates to attend private high schools that have contracted with the government. The ESC program improves school quality, relieves congestion in public high schools, maintains the financial viability of private secondary schools (more than one-third of private secondary school enrollments are supported by the program), keeps the overall costs of public secondary education in check, and encourages households to invest in education. ER -