Education 2025: Student First!

School Choice National Conference 2013

- Centre for Civil Society- 20 December 2013

Education 2025: Student First!

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Agenda

• School Choice in India in 2013

• Update on CCS and School Choice in 2013

• Our plans for 2014


Update on School Choice in India in 2013

• Key Research studies :

• The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a two-stage experiment in India, Prof. Karthik Muralidharan and Dr. Venkatesh Sundararaman

• Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India, , Prof. Karthik Muralidharan and Dr. Venkatesh Sundararaman

• Continued dismal performance on ASER- In 2012 nationally, 53.2% of all children in Std. V could not read a Std. II level text.

• Applications invited for 150 Model Schools (PPP) to be set up in next round of Phase-1 of implementation by MHRD

• Increase in private school enrolments (Class I-VIII) across India: +8.5% in 2012-2013 over 2011-2012 (DISE 2012-’13)

Accountability & Efficiency in use of Public Funds

Affordable education


SCC Agenda in 2013

Catalyse the market for affordable Education

Promote Accountability, Efficiency & Equity in the use of Public Funds

Build CCS as an Education Knowledge Hub


• Has grown into an alliance of state school associations with ~8000 member schools, servicing 16,00,000+ students across 19 States

• National conference held in September; 8 state level workshops held including Assam, Karnataka and Rajasthan

• Elections held in April 2013; office bearers including President, Vice-President (Advocacy), Vice-President (Quality) and Treasurer elected

1. Nat’l Independent Schools Alliance 1/2





• Funded by Acumen Fund, Friedrich Naumann Foundation & Gray Matters Capital

• Improving quality of Budget Private Schools (BPS) in partnership with STIR, Educational Innovations and Wipro

• Publication of coffee table book to enhance the image of BPS in Jan 2014; profiles stakeholders from BPS schools across 5 states

1. Nat’l Independent Schools Alliance 2/2





• INR 8.35Cr RCT in partnership with NSDC, MSDF, Dept of Social Justice Maharashtra (BARTI) and India Development Foundation

• Study effectiveness of student vouchers vs institutional funding for skill development programs with 3,000 SC students in Mumbai/Pune; planned end date : June 2015; phase 1 underway with 200 students

• Inspiration for the $150mn STAR Scheme launched by the Ministry of Finance and managed by NSDC

2. Vikalp – the Skill Voucher Program





3. School Voucher for Girls : Pilot Program

• Flagship RCT to study impact of vouchers on learning outcomes of 642 girls from 2009 – 2013

• Results show higher learning outcomes and aspiration levels as a result of vouchers

• Results to be published; shortlisted for presentation at the Annual Intervention School Choice Conference in Florida in Jan 2014

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• Funded research study by Tarraqi I Foundation to assess efficiency of and, minority access to, scholarship schemes

• Secondary research of literature, govt data, budgets, RTI applications. Primary survey of ~150 hhds in 3 communities, focus groups, interviews with Govt, NGOs

• Results: Only 29% scholarships awarded; 45% applications pending due to document review; 50% incorrect rejections; low utilisation of scholarship funds – only 12% renewals

4. Access to Minority ScholarshipsPromote Accountability, Efficiency & Equity in the use of Public Funds




• Developing 4 case studies to identify best practices for classroom integration & inclusive education starting with St Mary’s School, New Delhi (~20% reservation for last 3 decades); to be published in Feb 2014

• Several policy makers interested as little work has been done in effective classroom integration and inclusive education in India

5. Case studies on Inclusive Education





6. RTE and K12 Data PortalsPromote Accountability, Efficiency & Equity in the use of Public Funds



• Providing open source data on education in India in partnership with Central Square Foundation

• RTE portal launched in March 2010, was revamped in August 2013; referenced by MHRD website for translation of State Rules

• K12 Data Portal - being built as a one-stop repository of budget, learning outcome and related data on K12 education in India


Over the past 12 years…

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The School Choice Team


School Choice Goals 2014

Accountability, Efficiency &

Equity in use of Public Funds

Catalyze the sector for affordable education

Build CCS as an Education

Knowledge Hub

• Build robust funding model (per-child funding)

• Coalition 25 – platform for best practices on 25%

• Improve RTE implementation (SMC effectiveness) • Reduce entry & expansion barriers in the Higher Education sector - deliver on IGC funded project

• Grow NISA as a pan-India organisation

• Generate evidence for policy making (City School Mapping Project)