Decentralization of education management

Abstract

In many countries around the world many strategies are developed to improve educational services funding and their delivering, increasingly emphasizing the improvement of the quality of education. One of such strategy is the decentralization of the decision-making in education, the expansion school autonomy aiming to increase the parental and community involvement in schools. Although the principle that schools should be autonomous in at least some areas of their management is accepted nearly everywhere in Europe, however, it is worth to notice that school autonomy reform doesn’t belong to the European tradition. This type of school management was implemented in only a few pioneering countries from the 1980s onwards and in a limited way. The school autonomy movement did not really become widespread until the 1990s. [..]