지방자치단체의 지방교육재정 지원 개선방안

An Improvement Plan of a Support for Local Education Finance by the Local Government- Perspective of Comparison with Major Countries -

This study examined the prior researches at home and abroad in relation to local education finance, and arranged the logical foundation such as the relationship between local autonomy and decentralization, the structure of local education finance, and a role and limitation to responsibility in the local government. It carried out analysis of the actual condition for eliciting the present status and problems by utilizing statistical materials such as the present status of a support for local education finance in major countries of OECD, the data of the national statistical office in our country, etc.. The burden of local government for local education finance was small. Major problems were indicated to be the deepening in external dependence, the insecurity in transfer-subsidy size, the region-based gap, the randomness of expenditure for educational expense subsidy, the insufficiency of systematic management, and the dullness in transfer of school land fee. The major improvement-plan tasks were suggested that the direction of a support for local education finance needs to focus on expanding a support of the local government, on offering the equal offer of educational opportunity to residents, and on reinforcing responsibility and that a system of connective cooperation needs to be implemented for securing stable educational finance.