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This research aims to advance in the description and characterization of the so-called low-cost private schools in relation to different dimensions of educational quality and in a context of a poorly regulated educational market. The specific objectives set by the research are the following:

1. Identify the contextual factors (political, social, economic), actors and mechanisms that have contributed, by action or omission, to the process of deregulation and encouragement of the private educational offer from the 90s to the present.

2. Analyze the legal frameworks that regulate the provision of education in private institutions, as well as the existence of monitoring mechanisms (formal and informal) specifically oriented to the EBC sector.

3. Characterize the geographical distribution of the EBC offer in the context of Metropolitan Lima, analyzing it in relation to demographic change and socioeconomic structure, as well as in relation to the distribution of public schools.

4. Examine student performance in the EBC sector in terms of learning outcomes, analyzing possible differences with respect to other forms of private education as well as with respect to the network of publicly owned schools.

5. Explore the endowment of the CBEs in terms of human and material resources, organizational aspects and pedagogical orientation – understood as indicators of the quality of learning processes.