Abstract: Private education in China is a new phenomenon emerging from beyond the existing dominant public system. Consequently, quite a few governmental agencies, rather than one particular educational agency, are involved in the policy making and implementation in private education.To some extent, the effectiveness of private education policy depends on collaboration among governmental agencies on the one hand, and adjustment of the existing rule that might impede the new policy on the other hand. Therefore, it is appropriate to employ organizational behavior decision model to interpret and analyze private education policies. "Reasonable return", "independent college" and "nonprofit and for-profit classification" are three typical cases for organizational behavior decision model.

Key words: private education, policy lag, organizational behavior decision model, rule inertia