o “To investigate the impact of local school management on school outcomes, we use a multicounty survey carried out in 1997 over eight Latin American countries by the Latin American Laboratory of Quality of Education (LLECE). Our sample includes third and fourth graders in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Peru.7 The samples were constructed to include public and private schools, and schools in metropolitan, urban, and rural areas. The samples are not strictly proportional, noticeably under sampling rural children in Brazil and Chile and under sampling urban/metro children in the Dominican Republic.8 We include only the public schools in this analysis, as the private schools would not face the same constraints on local school control.” (Gunnarsson, V., Orazem, P., Sánchez, M., & Verdisco, A. (2009), P 32-33)