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The French government subsidizes most private primary and secondary schools, including those affiliated with religious denominations, under contracts stipulating that education must follow the same curriculum as public schools and that schools cannot discriminate on grounds of religion or force pupils to attend religion classes. This system of école libre (Free Schooling) is mostly used not for religious reasons, but for practical reasons (private schools may offer more services, such as after-class tutoring) as well as the desire of parents living in disenfranchised areas to send their children away from the local schools, where they perceive that the youth are too prone to delinquency or have too many difficulties keeping up with schooling requirements that the educational content is bound to suffer. The threatened repealing of that status in the 1980s triggered mass street demonstrations in favor of the status.[citation needed]

Sweden reformed its school system in 1992.[17] Its system of school choice is one of the freest in the world, allowing students to use public funds for the publicly or privately run school of their choice, including religious and for-profit schools.[17] Fifteen years after the reform, private school enrolment had increased from 1% to 10% of the student population.[17]

tradition mainly originates in the ideas and initiatives of the clergyman, poet and politician, N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872), and the teacher, Christen Kold (1816-1870)

Each Efterskole is a self-governing independent institution and they all deal with both the educational and personal development of the students

Efterskole were founded about 150 years ago

Trust schools are state-funded foundation schools which receive extra support (usually non-monetary) from a charitable trust made up of partners working together for the benefit of the school

Studies have also shown that, on average, these schools employ fewer staff and have a higher percentage of unqualified teachers.

With government funding for each school directly linked to the number of pupils it attracts, some for-profit schools sometimes appear to prioritize quantity over quality.

Some have tried to boost enrolment by touting free laptops, and surveys have suggested some independent schools try to attract students by awarding them higher grades - with fears of grade inflation as a result.

Democratic Schools are based on the basic assumption that students are curios and love to learn. The students on Democratic Schools have the right to decide how, when and what they want to learn. They have also a huge amount of rights to participate in the decision making process within the school. At many schools, e.g. the Sudbury Valley School, the students have the right to hire staff members and to manage the budget.In this film we will show Democratic Schools in Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Puerto Rico and the USA.

The Efterskole is a unique Danish independent residential school for students between 14 and 18 years old. Presently some 28.500 students attend one of the app. 260 schools throughout Denmark. The schools are open to students from abroad, but please note that to attend you like Danish students must pay school fees.

Education Minister Michael Gove is mistaken – free schools are a Danish invention. Look east, young man! The swedes and the americans may be running some along similar lines, but free schools (de frie skoler) have been knocking around for over a century across the North Sea

In Denmark, they have been providing a solid alternative to mainstream schooling for over a hundred years

HMC chairman Tim Hands said there was an "illogicality" about families buying a house near a good school but not being willing to pay school fees

Average fees in UK private schools are £14,000 a year.

Mr Hands said parents were making illogical choices and that private schools, such as those in his association, were wrongly attacked for restricting social mobility because of the fees they charged.

Secondary schools in Denmark‎ (1 C, 7 P)

Secondary schools in Malaysia‎ (2 C, 135 P)

Secondary schools in England‎ (60 C)

1851 the first Efterskole founded at Ryslinge, Fyn (Funen).

1996 the Danish Parliament in a significant law reform tightens up and emphasises the conditions for receiving state funding: an Efterskole must (prove itself to) be free and independent. Under no circumstances may the school from a legal point of view have strong organisational and financial links to – or be dependent on – other schools or movements.

Each Efterskole must be truly free and independent, and "master in its own house". This puts even more responsibility on the school board.