Irán
The present study seeks to investigate the obstacles to the participation and expansion of private sector's activities in education. This paper has been prepared having following aims in the mind: "how the existing status of nongovernmental schools in Iran", "identifying barriers to attracting private sector investment in school’s Non-governmental organizations in the country "and" prioritizing appropriate strategies for attracting private sector investment in these schools ". This paper sums up research findings. The statistical population of this study is all the founders and managers of nongovernmental schools, these school's students, their parents, as well as all experts and pundits in this field. The statistical sample of the study have been selected based on random sampling in six provinces. The results of the study show that the human resources, space condition and facilities of non-governmental schools in the sample were appropriate. Non-governmental schools cover more than 9 percent of all the students of the country.