Also, educational matters and welfare policies began to suffer frequent criticisms that 'the educational policy of Ninagawa's administration did nothing but indulge and spoil students (by citing instances of decreased percentage of enrollment from prefectural senior high schools to the Kyoto University),' 'high-handed behaviors of teachers' unions inside and outside the schools are intolerable,' and 'his welfare policy is pork-barrel politics which waste tax money.'
また、教育問題や福祉などでも「蜷川府政の教育政策は生徒を甘やかし、駄目にするだけだ（京都大学への府立高校からの進学率低下などが材料にされた）」「学校内外で教職員組合の横暴が過ぎる」「税金によるばら撒き福祉だ」という批判が頻繁に出されるようになった。