New Public Management in Education: From School Governance to School Management

New Public Management greatly influenced public sector in numerous countries around the world. It also caused significant changes in public education. New Public Management and processes of education decentralization affected decision making processes regarding schools and increased school autonomy. Changes in education system created new environment in which traditional school governance needed to chance into more market-oriented school management, resulting in important changes at school level. Article aim is to present how New Public Management and processes of decentralization lead to change at schools level from traditional school governance to school management basing on literature review. In first part of article New Public Management and it different possible models are presented along with decentralization processes and decentralization pathways. Second part is dedicated to decision making processes regarding school and school autonomy. Studies describing different systems of schools autonomy and accountability are presented. The third part concludes effects and reasons of transition from school governance to school management, why New Public management and decentralization processes lead to rise of school autonomy, changed roles and responsibilities of school head teachers and enabled local community stakeholders take part in school management.