FINANCING

Basic and secondary education is free of charge at schools that are registered by the conditions described by the Act on Education.  The expenditures connected with education are covered by the national budget. Also additional special needs of pupils are covered by the national budget. 

The financial resources are delivered by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to the regions according to the real number of students – „financial units“.

Regions are obliged to re-distribute the resources including also additional budget resources to support education of pupils with special needs to individual schools. There are the same principles for financing both special needs and regular education.  

Capitation grants are stipulated for individual schools and their activities. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport specifies capitation grants as recommended for calculation of subsidies. Regions receive this recommended amount of components and specify themselves the concrete amounts of grants for schools.

Financial flows are determined by the responsibilities of relevant organizing bodies. These responsibilities were changed in 2001. Transfer of responsibilities from the state to regions was a gradual one.