Privatising Education in Liberia: US$56M Over 5 Years

Initial funding for the pilot project is coming from UNESCO with support from the Chinese government. But Kishore Singh, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the right to education, recently described the plan as "unprecedented at the scale currently being proposed and violates Liberia's legal and moral obligations.” Bridge International’s investors include Bill Gates, the Omidyar Network, Pershing Square Foundation, and Mark Zuckerberg. Hedge fund and private equity investors have come under heavy criticism in the U.S. for promoting the privatization of education and thereby undermining the public school system.