DECENTRALIZATION AND FINANCING OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Keywords:
primary education, secondary education, financial budget, local government, decentralizationAbstract
The main aim of the process of Decentralization of education was to improve conditions, quality educational standards and to enable access to education. However, in order the process of decentralization of education to achieve its objectives, is necessary to be accompanied by sufficient fiscal decentralization, sufficient funding versus authorizations by the Local authorities in the sphere of education, exacerbates the efficiency of providing public services.
The main aim of this paper is to analyze the theoretical and empirical analysis of the forms of financing of primary and secondary education in the Republic of Macedonia in the time period from the beginning of the process of decentralization since 2005. The paper includes a review of the financial sufficiency for the realization of this comity, the criteria on the basis of which the funds from the central government to the local government are distributed and the criteria for determining the level of education budget at the local level. A number of problems have been identified in the application of current methods and an alternative approach to estimate the cost for student needs has been proposed. In order to make an informed decision about the required levels of resources, research needs to be done to determine the costs associated with the education of students with different levels of need.
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