Goncharuk V. V. The model of state-public management of general education schools in the region and its verification

This abstract deals with an urgent problem concerning the reform and development of general educational institutions in the region through by means of its decentralization. Management decentralization provides for the introduction of state-public management of general educational institutions based on introducing a public component on terms of trusting partnership. The development of general educational institutions management is a prior problem, but the problem of overcoming the monopoly state’s attitude to management is not yet studied enough in scientific research, that determines the necessity of further investigation.

The model of public involvement into the general educational institutions management in the region is proved and suggested to be provided through the creation of state-public Education Council on the head of a mayor. The peculiarity of the model proposed is that the representatives of local self-government bodies, public institutions, heads of enterprises and businessmen, school principals, the local Board deputies are proportionally represented in the Council and make 57% of the total number of representatives, and the parents community makes respectively 43%.

The work of the newly formed state-public management body is regulated by a detailed development of the statement dealing with state-public Education Council functioning. The procedure of the Council formation and staff has been accepted, that provides for step-by-step management structure formation and the electivity of social representatives on public hearings and the elections of parents community on the level of general educational institutions (GEI).

This approach to general educational institutions state-public management in the region contributes to formation of qualitatively new partnerships between all members of educational process, which becomes a kind of social push to public control and educational establishments adjustment work according to social needs and interests of the majority of educational process participants in the region.