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<p>Cuban Entrepreneurs Build Network of Private Schools</p>
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<p>As the government has allowed an explosion of private businesses ranging from restaurants to car washes, the school system, like health care, has remained under state control. Private schools remain illegal except for children of diplomats and foreign business
people. Even the Catholic Church cannot open parochial schools...Cuba's blooming entrepreneurial system has quietly created something that looks much like a private education sector, with thousands of students across Cuba enrolled in dozens of after-school
and weekend foreign language and art schools. The schools are entirely legal because they function as cooperatives of licensed private language teachers, one of the hundreds of new categories of self-employment authorized under Cuba's economic reforms.
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cuban-entrepreneurs-build-network-private-schools-n533251">http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/cuban-entrepreneurs-build-network-private-schools-n533251</a><br>
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