The Cooperation between Public School Administration and Private School Administration

Abstract

At the prefectural level, the governor and the prefectural board of education are the main organs of educational administration. Private school administration is carried out by the former, public school administration is carried out by the latter. Therefore, in most prefectures the function of school administration is divided. As an Exception, in Aomori, Akita, Gifu and Ibaraki, the prefectural board of education has the authority to permit the foundation and the close of private schools and decide of a grant for them. The purpose of this paper is to clarify what the cooperation between public school administration and private school administration should be, by analysing the actual conditions of the local educational administration. This paper deals with Shiga, Nara, Osaka and Gifu. The points for analysing actual conditions are 1. the personnel arrangement, 2. the adjustment systems between public school administration and private school administration, 3. the adjustmemt of internal items of education, 4. the channel of information. Main results are the following. 1. In the prefectures which have dual system, there are many kinds of devices in order to build up a closer cooperation between the governor and the board of education. But these devices cannot make up for the defects of dual system. 2. On the other hand, in Gifu whose board of education carries out private school administration, organizational unification has been done, but in essence unification has not been done. 3. Furthermore, from the viewpoint of the autonomy of private schools the surface unification is undesirable. Now new institutional reform is needed for the cooperation between public school administration and private school administration.