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Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by js2 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @09:17PM (#23912937)
Is this statement from the page I linked to wrong then?

> In contrast to American private schools, Sweden’s free schools don’t charge tuition — they draw on government funds to operate — and are required to follow Sweden’s national curriculum. They’re more comparable to American charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run.

Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se... by rayiner on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @10:08PM (#23913251)
I mean I guess what part you’re focused on. The Swedish program is widely called a “voucher” program. It has the essential element of competition: per student funding follows the student. As your quote states, it’s like charter schools rather than tuition-charging private schools in that money doesn’t go through the parents, but directly to schools. But like the De Voss proposal, and unlike American charter schools, Swedish school choice encompasses a much wider variety of schools, including religious schools.