Abstract

 
 The article focuses on the implementation of educational tasks in rural and urban-rural municipalities in Poland. For several years education policy has been one of the key problems of the Polish municipalities due to constantly growing costs of educational tasks. This problem particularly affects small municipalities in which education absorbs most of their budgets and which limits development opportunities of municipalities in other fields. The article presents one of possible forms of local education policy rationalization, which is the transfer of educational tasks to non-public stakeholders, with particular emphasis on social organizations. In the article, the author analyzes the most engaging form of stakeholders’ participation in education policy, which is recognized as an example of co-production of public services. Thus, the concept of co-production constitutes the theoretical framework of the article.
 
Highlights
The issue of non-public stakeholders’ participation in the implementation of education tasks is undertaken along with any reform of education policy and planned changes in the school governance system
Participation is understood as a form of coproduction of educational services, rather than participation understood as social bodies engagement in the functioning of schools
The education policy consumed most of the municipal budgets, limiting development opportunities
Summary
The issue of non-public stakeholders’ participation in the implementation of education tasks is undertaken along with any reform of education policy and planned changes in the school governance system. It is generally limited to the presence of collegiate social bodies in the school government processes and the impact of the school environment (stakeholders) on the model of a student’s education and upbringing. This article focuses on non-public stakehol ders’ participation, strongly involving non-state actors in public sphere activities, including the implementation of educational tasks. In this sense, participation is understood as a form of coproduction of educational services, rather than participation understood as social bodies (such as partners’ councils, school councils) engagement in the functioning of schools (not requiring a high level of commitment)
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