Corrected for socioeconomic factors free schools do worse (as per the latest OECD report). One can have many things to say about that way of counting, but if we

Corrected for socioeconomic factors free schools do worse (as per the latest OECD report). One can have many things to say about that way of counting, but if we are to have a system with so many apparent problems, shouldnt we at least get something for it? And I think that is where the problem lays: we have publicly funded for profit schools. The only way they can make money is by not letting taxpayer money for education go to education. All my other points stem from this. It is pretty telling about the free school interest group's response to the report of equivalence ("likvärdigheten") of the Swedish school system: they hated all suggestions the report made to make the situation better. Even pretty benign ones like mandatory school selection, removing queued days as grounds for selection and so on. My theory is because they know those things are what makes it possible for them to pocket such a large part of the money they get. The problem, however, isn't any individual company. It is the law that allows it. Which makes it even more provoking: we have had the numbers for 20 years. Looking at the statistics since 2000 you can see in which direction things were heading. Why didn't anyone go "this is not what we want. Let's re-evaluate".