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Monday, October 3rd, 2011 was the first day of school in Haiti and the official launch of a plan to give all of Haiti's children access to a free education (up to the 6th grade by 2015 and up to the 9th grade by 2020). The plan calls for students to be educated in private schools which will be publicly funded. Participating schools that offer free tuition, adopt a national curriculum, and submit their students to annual testing, will receive state funds, certification, and training for their teachers. The ambitious 10-year-plan was initiated by the Preval administration in May 2010, to be financed by a 500 million dollar loan (50 million a year for the next 10 years) from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB.) The Martelly administration is proceeding with the plan, and has initiated a National Fund for Education that collects revenues for education from taxes on phone calls and wire transfers ($1.50 per transfer) made by the Diaspora. This education plan is a unique effort on the part of the stakeholders in Haiti  and on the part of the Haitian Diaspora to collaborate to help Haiti rebuild its educational system and educate every child after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. 

http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Haiti+Schools+recovery/4387322/story.html  (According to this article, the amount of the IDB plan for education is 4.2 billion dollars. Other sources have the loan amount from IDB  as 500 million dollars (50 million a year for the next 10 years).