Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines
Many developing countries have devolved the responsibility for education services to local governments in an effort to improve educational quality and make public spending more efficient. Advocates of decentralization have argued that bringing deci...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26573024/assessing-role-played-local-government-supporting-basic-education-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24747 |
| Summary: | Many developing countries have devolved
the responsibility for education services to local
governments in an effort to improve educational quality and
make public spending more efficient. Advocates of
decentralization have argued that bringing decision-making
closer to schools makes public policy more responsive to
local needs, strengthens accountability, and fosters
innovation. In some countries, decentralization has gone
further in that schools have been given responsibility for
developing their own improvement plans and a degree of
autonomy over the use of their resources. The purpose of
this policy note is to assess the financing of basic
education services by local governments in the Philippines.
Using data that the PETS-QSDS team has carefully collected
from a nationally representative sample of elementary and
high schools, it explores the magnitude of the funding that
local governments are giving to schools and assesses the
systems that govern the use of local government funds in the
education sector. The policy note shows that local
governments’ contribution to overall public education
funding is small and highly inequitable. It also shows that
the systems used to allocate and manage these funds are weak
and that greater transparency and accountability over these
resources is urgently needed. |
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