Abstract

MONTOYA, Silvia  and  FRUGONI, María Laura. Efficiency or Sufficiency in the Private Management Sector?. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2016, n.70, pp.149-174. ISSN 0120-3916.

This research focuses around the question: Is privately managed education more efficient than publicly managed education? To begin, "technical efficiency' is defined as the highest level of product (learning level) achieved with the supplies available (teacher skills, classroom size, etc). The focus on the relationship between investment and results makes the comparison a task to be addressed from different approaches. A list of all these aspects has been made based on information obtained from evaluations and research for the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires. What is the importance, involvement, number of students enrolled, and the role played by privately managed schools? What is the financing structure? To what measure does private education depend on the State's funding, or contributions made by families? What is the total amount of economic resources assigned to each type of management? How are funds allocated? What is the quality of the education provided? What's the influence of the students' socioeconomic level, and economic, demographic or geographic background on their progress? What results in terms of learning, trajectory, and equity levels does a school obtain under each type of management? The answers to these questions lead to restating the initial question: What learning outcomes would be obtained under each management sector with equivalent spending levels and enrollment under the same socioeconomic conditions?

Keywords : Equity; efficiency; quality of education; financing; allocation; socioeconomic factor; management sectors.

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