Poverty no bar for quality-conscious parents as private schooling booms
RTE implementation driving migration from government to private schools. 69% of private unaided schools are low cost, 22% affordable, and only 9% high cost.
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Why India’s landmark education law is shutting down schools
Rangaraju provides the national count of 2,692 schools shut and 17,871 at risk under RTE norms. Quoted directly on the law’s failure to make teaching mandatory or link teacher pay to performance.
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India’s misguided schools policy shutting out the poor
Rangaraju explains how RTE’s infrastructure mandates are destroying the low-cost private schools that serve Bihar’s poorest children, and why political compulsions rather than evidence are driving the closures.
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No health care for slum kids: How Right to Education has hit the private, non-profit schools
India Institute’s Save Deepalaya campaign covered directly. Rangaraju quoted on the need to reform recognition criteria in the Delhi School Education Act to enable quality low-cost schools to operate.
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Data Blind Abhiyaan: Indian schools shutting down en masse, why is govt silent?
Op-ed by Baladevan Rangaraju documenting India Institute’s Data Blind campaign tracking school closures under RTE. Argues the government has no reliable data on how many schools have been shut.