A szülők szabad iskolaválasztása és annak hatása a beiskolázásra
Parents’ free school choice and its impact on school enrolment

Summary/Abstract: Free school choice for parents celebrates its 40th anniversary in Hungarian education. Following the 2010 elections, the previously relatively unchanged education system was almost completely transformed, and in 2013, schools were transferred from municipal to state ownership. In this architecture, with its uniform curricula and textbooks, where in theory everyone has access to educational services of the same content and quality, the system of free school choice for parents, which has outlived successive governments, is particularly absurd. Currently, three significant factors influence the situation of state-run primary schools. The unstoppable decline in the country’s population, the growing importance of churches as school operators and years of underfunding. For most schools, the main challenge is not strategic thinking and action, but rather day-to-day survival.

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