But a majority of South African schools remain all-black, rural and desperately poor, unable to assess the fees or recruit dedicated teachers to raise their test scores.
Lawmakers estimate that six million residential and business phone lines were being assessed the fee, which was supposed to help telephone companies recoup costs associated with installing the once state-of-the-art telephones.
The new way of assessing the fee focuses on private jets' fuel consumption.
The program assesses the fees on phone companies, but they typically pass the cost to consumers.
A divided board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation voted to make public a preliminary proposal for using executive compensation as a factor in assessing the fees that banks must pay for the deposit insurance fund.
The company assessed the fees on customers who had sought to reorganize their debts and save their homes or on homeowners who, the company claimed, sometimes falsely, were in default on their loans.
Jodie King, the UK manager at IES, says her company will be scrupulously fair in assessing the fees it will charge for Breckland, and that IES is in talks with a further two free school groups over running their institutions for fees – but the firm has greater ambitions.
There will also be a claims process for parents who believe they were unfairly assessed the fees earlier than 2010 or for reasons other than innocence.
As the FCC was considering the net neutrality rules, the group urged it to permanently prohibit assessing the fees on broadband because they would "undermine the efforts being made by cable operators and the commission to promote broadband adoption".
A spokesman for Sprint-Nextel, John Taylor, said the company determined it could not assess the termination fees in its federal contract because it would have been against the law.
