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Schools, Financing of: Specific legal entities bear the costs for establishing and maintaining schools. The federal authorities are responsible for the financing of all public schools, i.e. schools covering compulsory education (elementary schools, Hauptschule secondary schools, schools for children with special needs, Polytechnischer Lehrgang and vocational schools); public residences provided for pupils of schools covering compulsory education, public kindergartens and day-care centres are financed by the provinces or, depending on the legal provisions of the individual provinces, by municipalities or groups of municipalities; other regulations govern the financing of Private Schools.