A/HRC/29/30 5. Engaging the community in expanding public educational opportunities 123. When States alone cannot fully meet public demand for education, community schools should be encouraged, as they can play a meaningful complementary role. Public authorities should, therefore, engage with communities for the realization for the right to education. Similarly, the foundations of public utilities established for philanthropic motives should be encouraged to contribute to education as a public good. 6. Preserving education as a public good and fostering the humanistic mission of education 124. Public authorities should not allow the pursuit of material values to the detriment of a humanist mission of education or the propagation by private schools of a value system solely conducive to the market economy, with learning systems devoid of cultural diversity. States must ensure that the education imparted in private schools is in conformity with the objectives of education laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in international human rights conventions. 7. Reporting obligations of private providers 125. Regulations should prescribe full financial and performance reporting requirements for all private schools. It should be obligatory for all private providers to report regularly to designated public authorities on their financial operations, in line with prescriptive regulations, covering matters such as school fees collected and salaries paid to teachers, and to declare, in a fully transparent manner, that they are not engaged in for-profit education. 8. Strengthening human rights control mechanisms 126. Governments should strengthen existing human rights mechanisms such as national human rights institutions and ombudspersons or create special mechanisms to regularly oversee operations of private providers. Such mechanisms should have suo motto investigatory power, with a mandate to look into alleged violations by private providers and any abusive practices. Recommendations made by such mechanisms should be implemented by Governments. 9. Monitoring of privatization and human rights treaty bodies 127. The Special Rapporteur would like to urge the United Nations human rights treaty bodies to give special consideration during their dialogues with States to the negative impacts of private providers and whether their operations are regulated and controlled in accordance with human rights law and internationally established frameworks of the right to education. 10. Monitoring of privatization and universal periodic review 128. The Special Rapporteur considers it important, in the context of the universal periodic review, to look at the negative effects of privatization on the right to education in countries under review and for Governments to regulate private providers and safeguard education as a public good. State obligations for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to education, particularly in the context of privatization, should be a priority concern in such reviews. 23