The outline said private education will be greatly encouraged and unfavorable policies against them shall be eliminated.
There were about 100,000 privately-run schools in the country which educated about 28 million students in 2008.
The outline said children of migrant workers would be able to sit high school exam in areas where their parents work, a step which would allow equal opportunities of education to those children.
The outline also called for the removal of bureaucracy-like management at schools, which was seen as a hurdle of education development in China.
