Administration, Financing and Decentralization of the Schools System in Romania

This article aims at depicting practical hypotheses of the concept of decentralization in the Romanian pre-university education system, from both financial and administrative perspectives. It shall comprise aspects related to territorial decentralization and decentralization of services. It uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods and underlines the complex advantages which multi-level-governance - related principles can bring to the Romanian education and, within a wider framework, to the overall administration. Definitions and approaches to the decentralization process clearly show an evolution in both the concerns of practitioners and specialists. This evolution must be understood in the context in which even the process of decentralization is not a static reality, suffering transformations depending on the geographic, historical, socio-economic context etc. When talking about decentralization, we must consider both the basic and intermediate level of the local public administration. Therefore, an evolutionary presentation of decentralization also logically includes regional decentralization or regionalization.