The Empirical Research on the Impact of Decentralized Education Management System on the Rural Compulsory Education Quality in China Based on Surveys of Primary and Secondary Schools in Hubei and Jiangsu

Abstract

This paper does an empirical study on the impact of decentralized school finance and personnel management system on the rural compulsory education quality with the method of hierarchical linear model and the data of Rural Compulsory Education Survey launched by China's Education Finance Research Institute in 2007.Results show that the decentralized personnel management system has a statistically significant positive effect on the education quality,but the decentralized school finance system has a statistically mixed effect on the education quality.In order to improve the quality of rural compulsory education and advance the reform of the new guarantee mechanism of education funds in the middle and east regions,rural primary and secondary schools should be given certain autonomy to use funds and meanwhile,the monitoring mechanisms for the process of the use of public funds in schools should be improved and strengthened.And the decentralized system of personnel management of teachers should be implemented and certain degree of autonomy of personnel management of teachers should be given to principals in rural schools.