The New Situation in the Legislation on Education: Federal and Regional Responsibilities

Abstract

The paper considers the problem of dividing responsibilities in the educational sphere (including that of government guarantees such as the right to education) between the federal and the regional levels of administration. The problems under consideration appeared as a result of Federal Law 122, signed August 22, 2004, and also because of planned reforms in education, foremost of all those described in The priority directions in the development of the educational system in the Russian Federation. The author suggests that the modernization policies in education require profound revision: the administrative component should be decreased, and the social component should be increased.