The OECD Review of Policies to Improve the Effectiveness of Resource Use in Schools (also referred to as the School Resources Review) is designed to respond to the strong interest in the effective use of school resources evident at national and international levels. It provides analysis and policy advice on how to distribute, utilise and manage resources so that they contribute to achieving effectiveness and efficiency objectives in education. School resources are understood in a broad way, including financial resources (e.g. expenditures on education, school budget), physical resources (e.g. school buildings, computers), human resources (e.g. teachers, school leaders) and other resources (e.g. learning time).

Anthony Levitas has been providing, for the last twenty years, analytical and political advice on local government reform to elected officials and civil servants in Central and Eastern European Countries. He helps policy makers decide what responsibilities sub‑national governments should have and where they should get the money to pay for them. In particular, he provides support in designing predictable, adequate, and equitable transfer systems; in developing sound rules for local government taxation, budgeting, investment planning, and financial reporting; and in creating and regulating municipal debt markets. He has also worked extensively on school management and finance. Anthony has been instrumental in developing and implementing local government reform programmes in Poland, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania. He has also worked in Ukraine, Turkey, Mongolia, Georgia and Armenia. In Poland, where he has lived for most of the past two decades, he has been deeply involved with the decentralisation of primary and secondary education and until recently served as Research Director of the Ministry of Education’s Local Government School Management unit.

Monday, 20 October 2014, Tallinn