Education was administered by a very bureaucratic structure. The Ministry of Education, the central body which answered to the federal government, made all of the rules and controlled expenditures with prescriptive regulations. It determined the curriculum, how it would be taught, and how performance would be measured. In every region, the ministry established Boards of Education to whom it delegated limited power. Since reforms were implemented, some 67 cents of each education dollar is spent in the classroom, which is more than double the previous amount.
Parents play the dominant role in the educational choices for their children.
Learning has improved, and classroom size is down. Education still continues to be fully funded by the central government from general income and consumption tax revenues. Every child is still entitled by law to a tax-supported education until completing secondary school. However, little else remains the same. All Boards of Education have been entirely eliminated.