it holds the overall responsibility for schooling and is in charge of developing the curriculum national objectives and guidelines for the education system to reduce the gap between immigrant and native students sweden s government will need to use tools such as funding and guidelines to promote policies to reduce it one of the core components school choice was a radical change from the previously enforced locationbased system the reformed policy mandated the provision of vouchers for any school public or independent regardless of geographic location in order to create a more democratic educational system by introducing freedom of choice and allowing local schools a higher degree of autonomy lund