In a dramatic experiment to test whether the country’s education system can improve by simply changing school management, the Liberian Education Advancement Partnership (LEAP) handed the operation of 93 public schools to a group of eight private organizations for three years. The organizations are a mix of for-profit companies and non-profit charities, and they are both local and international. The schools included in the experiment were free to their students and they used government teachers.
Overall, modest learning outcome gains plateaued after the first year of the experiment.
