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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okr-10986-247472021-06-14T10:14:09Z Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines World Bank Group public expenditure basic education local government education finance budget transparency accountability school boards 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. 2016-08-01T21:00:06Z 2016-08-01T21:00:06Z 2016-06 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26573024/assessing-role-played-local-government-supporting-basic-education-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24747 English en_US Philippines education note,no. 7; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Policy Note Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Philippines |
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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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Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines |
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Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines |
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Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines |
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Assessing the Role Played by Local Government in Supporting Basic Education in the Philippines |
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