Municipal institutions (representative[1] and/or executive[2]), implement the national education policy in the municipality. 

The representative municipality institution:

• Implements national education policy in the municipality, plans, measures and projects to meet the challenges of advancing education policy
• Establishes, reorganises, and closes education departments in the municipality administration.
• Forms a network of educational institutions, i.e. a network of schools providing pre-school, pre-primary, primary, lower-secondary and upper-secondary education, non-formal and informal education for children and adults, and provides the conditions to implement compulsory education. Initiates the formation of a network of VET providers and adult education providers that is in line with the needs of the inhabitants of municipality and independently forms the network of non-formal education providers.

The executive municipality institution:

• Analyses the state of education, ensures the implementation of the National Education Policy.
• Organizes pre-school, pre-primary, and general education, vocational training and vocational guidance, other non-formal and informal education for children, and non-formal adult education for adults.
• Organizes and coordinates the provision of educational assistance to the pupil, teacher, family and school, the implementation of a child’s minimum care measures, ensures implementation of preventive programmes, contracts with psychological assistance providers that provide educational assistance.
• Organizes the verification of municipal schools’ teachers and education assistance specialists according to the procedure established by the Minister of Education, Science and Sport.
• According to the procedures established by the Government, Organizes and maintains accounting of children living in the municipality’s territory, according to the procedures established by the Government; ensures that all children are trained in compulsory education programmes.
• Organises assessment of the achievements of pupils from its territory.
• Organises pupils’ transportation to and from school free of charge.
• Provides information about the current state of education to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport and society.

Each municipal administration has a department (departments) responsible for the activities of educational institutions in a particular municipality.

In order to promote society’s participation in shaping and implementing education policy, the municipal education council and councils for concrete education sphere can be established. The pupils, teachers, parents (foster parents), social parents, education providers and/or their associations are represented on the municipal education council. This council approves the statute of the municipal education council. It also analyses how the municipality implements national education policy, approves long-term education goals and garners society to reach these goals.

The institution implementing the rights and obligations of the school owner or its authorised institution are responsible for solving administrative and management matters as follows:

• Ensures access to education in schools for pupils with special educational needs.
• Organises transport for pupils to and from school.
• Closes, reorganises or reforms the school.
• Organises public tender for the position of the school head, composes the tender commission, assigns the school head through a public tender, and where necessary, terminates them from the position.
• Together with the education provider, is responsible for the quality of education.
• Supervises school activities.
• Organises external school evaluation.
• Establishes the admission procedure for state and municipal schools.
• Evaluates learning achievements.
• Allocates funding for infrastructure maintenance according to its established procedures.
• Supports a school’s strategic plan which is later approved by the head of the school.
• Decides on how extra days from the prolonged educational process will be used.
• Reviews the Annual Activity Report of the school head. If it is determined that the school does not have the capacity to ensure the quality of the school management or the school council negatively assesses the Annual Activity Report of the head of the school (if this occurs two years in a row), the decision to dismiss the school head is taken.
• Is responsible for the public presentation of the evaluations of the Annual Activity Reports of the heads of the schools.
• Implements other functions.

The head of the educational institution:

• Responds to any violence in the educational establishment in accordance with the law
• Submits an Annual Activity Report to the school community and the council for consideration
• Organises the activities of the educational establishment by implementing its strategic management; directs the preparation of the strategic and annual plans of the educational establishment and ensures their implementation; organises the evaluation and monitoring of the activities of the educational establishment, analyses the state of resources and is responsible for the performance of the educational establishment
• Leads the development of a culture of leadership development, maintains and strengthens an environment conducive to each student’s learning and potential
• Implements staff management measures, providing opportunities and incentives for staff, ensuring their professional development and compliance with the Teachers’ Code of Conduct
• Cooperates with the parents/guardians, local community and partners to achieve the objectives of the educational institution and, together with the self-governing bodies of the educational institution, to resolve the most important issues of its activities; cooperates with institutions, bodies, enterprises and organisations for the purpose of effective management of the institution, the quality of the education, and the security of the students
• Performs other functions as laid down in the statutes for the educational institution and other legal acts.

Self-governance bodies of the school collectively discuss issues of school activity and funding and, within the scope of their competence defined in the statute of the school, adopt decisions and influence decisions of the head of the school and perform public supervision of the school’s management. The variety and competence of self-governance bodies and the principles of their establishment are defined in the statute of the school.

The School Council is a school’s highest self-governance body, representing the pupils, teachers, parents (foster parents, guardians) and local community. The council accounts for its activity to the members of the school community who have elected them. 

[1] The representative of a municipality institution is the Municipality Council [2] An executive of a municipality institution is a municipality mayor.