every year the ministry sets objectives in a statement of intent a planning and accountability document with a fiveyear horizon since there has been a devolution of management responsibilities to schools along with increased power for the ministry to intervene in failing schools since in of decisions at lower secondary level were taken centrally with schools taking the remaining of decisions see figure for oecd average from available data only english and dutch schools had higher decisionmaking capacity elected governing boards run individual early childhood education providers and are responsible for staffing financial management compliance reporting and setting and measuring performance targets