The dissertation proposes a comprehensive solution to the problem of substantiating the theoretical and methodological foundations of the formation of a system for the implementation of state policy in the field of education, which is important for the branch of public administration science, to ensure targeted transformation processes at the local level. The essence of the state policy in the field of education and the directions of its improvement on the basis of adaptive management and the knowledge economy, theoretical and methodological prerequisites for the management of the field of education have been investigated.
Ukraine's integration into the world educational space requires constant improvement of the national education system, search for effective ways to improve the quality of educational services, testing and implementation of innovative pedagogical systems, real equal access of all its citizens to quality education, modernization of education and its organization adequately to world trends and requirements. labor market, ensuring continuity of education and lifelong learning. As world experience shows, education and society are inseparable, which is a single system. And if the conditions and factors directly related to the formation of the individual, his cultural and spiritual and moral development are subject to reform and restoration, then the indispensable means of such development is education and everything connected with it. One of the most important directions of the country is the priority development of the educational sphere, for many countries it has been, is and remains a strategic point of growth, as it creates an effective, powerful investment resource – human potential.
A sign of progressive transformations in the national economy should be the creation of conditions for satisfying the needs of the real sector of the economy with sufficient financial resources, improving the system of mechanisms for state regulation of educational activities in the domestic market, strengthening cooperation with the private sector, as well as strengthening monitoring of the quality of education in support of state development. It has been proved that for the implementation of the process of decentralization of power for the development of educational activities, an important task is: the creation of effective education management functions, transparent education management communities involved in education departments of district state administrations.
A mechanism for targeted control of the development of the infrastructure of the educational information space at the local level has been built. Educational activity in Ukraine requires qualitative changes in reproduction processes, changes in the structure of local self-government bodies in the field of education management and their state regulation, increasing quantitative potential. All of this is designed to meet the needs of government agencies and create a powerful platform for effective competition at the local and state levels.
State management of the quality of education at the local level forms only a part of the component of state management of the quality of education and has specific features, streamlining the ways of setting and achieving socially significant goals in specific conditions of managing the educational environment. The mechanism of ensuring the functioning of the regional educational cluster has been substantiated, which provides for changes in reproductive processes, changes in the structure of local self-government bodies in the field of education management and their state regulation, and an increase in quantitative potential
