Role and task of state in financing education in Poland

Abstract

Although the responsibility for financing and managing education in Poland lies with the units of self-government, ensuring the financial resources for the realization of educational tasks is found to be at the mercy of the state budget. Transfers in the form of parts of general educational subsidies constitute the principal source of financing educational tasks. In the herein paper, the essence of decentralization has been explained, as well as a presentation provided of the issues associated with the redistribution of general subsidies for educational tasks as the principal source of financing educational tasks.