Learning Leadership Role in Funding Education in the Era of Regional Autonomy

摘要

In the era of regional autonomy, financing of education is not only the responsibility of the central government, but it is a shared responsibility between government, local government, and society. Particularly, schools' operational funding is highly demanded. Educational institutions should be more independent, creative and innovative in exploring and allocate various resources and sources of funding, specifically in education funding. Unfortunately, by implementing regional and school autonomy, the school has not received any fundamental change in its orientation of education finance. Moreover, financing at state schools still rely on government's funding while private schools tend to rely on the parental funding. To be more precise, a cost is one of the three most important things in management along with facility and time. Educational leaders in general and principals in particular have to be student-oriented, in other words, they have to focus more on students' needs because the primary mission of the school is to focus on teaching and learning. Not to mention that school effectiveness also often measured according to the students' achievement. In order to realize the aforementioned condition, it takes no small amount of funding since the role of leadership has to be applied in order to manage and arrange the education's financing. Instructional leadership is not only required to be able to pay attention to the result of students' learning process but should also be able to create a strategy in order to fulfill the necessary amount of funding in learning process.