Abstract
In this paper, the role the prefectural board of education plays in teacher personnel affairs of a public school was analyzed. A survey was conducted for personnel specializing in teacher personnel affairs of the board of education of all prefectures. It was shown that there is a difference in the range of office work for the prefectural education board for every prefecture. Therefore, this paper showed clearly what kinds of factors explain such a difference using the results of econometric analysis. As a result of this analysis, it became clear that the ratio of the number of the personnel of a prefectural education board, local branches, and local education authority is, first, various and, it became clear, second, that the difference in such personnel composition has influenced the work distribution between a prefectural education board, local branches, and local education authority. That is, the role of the adjustment of requests about personnel affairs taken from local education authorities changed according to differences in personnel composition. Moreover, the prefectural education board which collects the information about personnel affairs directly, and the prefectural education board which performs only adjustment of information were divided by the difference in personnel composition. These results showed that personnel arrangement needed to be improved, in order to weaken participation of the prefectural education board to the teacher personnel affairs of a public school and to strengthen participation of local branches and local education authority. Until now, the consolidation of municipalities etc. has been pointed out as a means which raises autonomous administration capability. However, the analysis result in this paper did not show that a consolidation of municipalities demonstrates an effect unconditionally. Rather, even if a consolidation of municipalities was not performed, it was shown that an effect can be mentioned by the improvement of personnel arrangement. A future subject is advancing research which focused on local branches, and research which focused on the personnel's man-power development.
