This trend is expressed in the emergence of market-type mechanisms in the public sector and the consumer as a social concept. In the field of public education, these social and economic changes are testing the boundaries of the present system. In recent years, a variety of individual initiatives have been trying to develop new models of local schools, each of them based on unique educational or ideological concepts. Increased public accountability. Deregulation suggests a public education system that allows the possibility of multiple suppliers, not necessarily the state or the local authority.
Democratization carries, in the present context, a dual meaning.
At the individual level, democratization implies a recognition of parental choice - i.e., the right of parents to decide which schools suit their children's interests or needs. Or, in more concrete terms, the potential role of civic groups and local communities in shaping local schools and managing them. Increased public accountability advances a civic demand for school accountability to parents and the community as legitimate stakeholders and recognition of their rights to react to school outcomes.