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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by sampo on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:48AM (#38217330)
Wikipedia translates the Swedish friskola as charter school in English.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friskola

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_school#Sweden

"A charter school is a school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located. It is independent in the sense that it operates according to the basic principle of autonomy for accountability, that it is freed from the rules but accountable for results."

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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by Tijdreiziger on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:02AM (#38217449)
This is basically how the schooling system in the Netherlands works. Any group of people is free to found a school based on their own beliefs (religious, pedagogical, or otherwise), and such schools are quite common.

The historical reason for this freedom is that Christians wanted to found religious schools, but it has since widely been used by a variety of religious and non-religious groups.

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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by mullsork on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:04AM (#38218322)
Are those schools privately or publicly funded?
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Re:Sweden's schools minister declares free school 'system fa... by Tijdreiziger on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:18AM (#38218423)
They’re funded by the state.
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