the following policy priorities were identified to improve the effectiveness of resource use in the slovak school system the schools have acquired relatively great autonomy all of them now have an elected school board with relatively strong jurisdictions they are protected from too strong a local control through the funding system which limits the redistributing power of their founders they take responsibility for human resource management and they are also encouraged to adapt the national curriculum to their own specific educational context through school education programmes at the same time the national ministry maintains strong regulatory powers the move towards extended local and institutional autonomy has been paralleled with the creation and strengthening of accountability frameworks the emerging national system of standardised student achievement measurement and the state schools inspectorate are key elements of the latter in addition the slovak republic has an information system which allows the monitoring of many local and institutional level processes such as student performance funding and human resource management and creates opportunities to assess the impact of national policies and development interventions