Since the 1980s, the transfer of educational decision-making authority and responsibility from the center to regional and local systems has become an increasingly popular reform around the world. At least eight, often interrelated, goals are driving the change: accelerating economic development by modernizing institutions; increasing management efficiency; reallocating financial responsibility, for example, from the center to the
periphery; promoting democratization; increasing local control through deregulation; introducing market-based education; neutralizing competing centers of power such as teachers unions and political parties; and enhancing the quality of education (for
example, by reducing dropout rates or increasing learning).
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