The Brazilian education level is considered low compared to developed countries, especially in public schools, despite its being high in many of their private counterparts.

And they usually don't take the lucrative equity positions in portfolio companies that their private counterparts seek.

This will put the public provider in direct and healthy competition with its private counterparts.

I was positive that public defenders would prove more effective than their private counterparts.

If all else fails, the city will clean the property and then deliver the bill, albeit one substantially higher than its private counterpart.

No one is arguing that public schools should become carbon copies of their private or parochial counterparts, and in fact they cannot.

Many of the best state sites have a commercial partner, and in some cases public agencies share nearly equal billing with their private counterparts.

In general, public universities are held in higher esteem than their private counterparts.

What it is doing is offering schools the freedom to compete with their far superior private counterparts who already do this.

Presidents of public universities generally earn much less than their private counterparts.