Decentralization and Education Service Delivery in Public Secondary Schools in Sheema District, Western Uganda

ABSTRACT ie study was set to establish the effect of decentralization on education service delivery Sheema district western Uganda. The study objectives included assessing the lationship between political decentralization on educational service delivery, assess the fect of administrative decentralization on educational service delivery and to find out Le effect of fiscal decentralization on educational service delivery. The study was )nducted from Sheema district in the public secondary schools in Sheema district. The udy employed descriptive and correlation design. The data was collected from 150 spondents who were teachers, local leaders and district education officials. The data as collected through the use of research questionnaire and interview guide from the ~lected respondents. The study findings were that political decentralization has low ~nificant relationship with educational service delivery in public secondary schools in ieema district hence political decentralization does not have a significant effect on lucational services delivery. The findings on the second objective were that administrative decentralization affect educational service delivery on the third objective ;cal decentralization had a significant effect on educational service delivery in public ~condary schools, the relationship between the variables is significant meaning that ;cal decentralization affect educational service delivery. The researcher concluded that )litical decentralization does not contribute much to educational service delivery in public ~condary schools in Sheema district, the findings means that educational service delivery not as a result of political decentralization. On the second research objective the searcher concluded that administrative decentralization does not contribute to lucational service delivery in public secondary schools in Sheema district, the researcher )ncluded that administrative decentralization need improvement and enhancing other ctors necessary for enhancing education service delivery. On the third objective fiscal ~centralization has a contribution to educational service delivery in public secondary :hools in Sheema district, the researcher conclude that there is need for enhancing the ovision financial services to the education institutions as means to improving ~rformance. The study recommends that there is need to enhance the political iministration management especially on the supervision of the educational frastructure in Sheema district. Further assessment of the quality of the teachers needs be done plus improving teacher enrollments in order to improve the performance of ie education services delivery. The education administration need to setup investigations order to realize the value for the management of the institutions. The schools need to iprove on education policy especially on the teachers in order to provide realizable value ~r enhancing services delivery. Fiscal decentralization need to be enhanced through Tective disbursement of funds to the schools. There is need for the improvement of inds allocation to schools in order to realize value for the education services and finally iere is need for increasing on the funding to the schools.