Budget transfers for non-public nursery schools in Poland

Abstract

Private nursery schools are playing an important role in Polish educational system. Finding what determines the amount of public funds sent to these institutions is the main subject of this publication. These studies have shown that the amount of the grant for private nursery schools mostly depends on the remuneration of teachers employed at public nursery schools. Amended provisions of the law did not significantly affect the amount of transfers to non-public nurseries schools. At the same time they made significant facilitation in principles of granting the subsidy for non-public nursery schools. It is more transparent and predictable now. A threat for functioning of that kind of institutions seems to be the unfavourable demographic forecasts which provide for a reduction in the number of children at pre-school age.