!!!Schulverwaltung und Schulaufsicht

School Administration and Supervision are subject to the Ministry for  
Education, the  Provincial School Boards, which are subordinate to the 
ministry, and the District School Boards, which are subordinate to the 
Provincial School Boards. The Act of May 25, 1868 ("additional 
regulations on the relationship between schools and the church", 
Reichsgesetzblatt RGBl. 48/1868) ended school supervision by the 
church and replaced it by supervision by the state; only the 
supervision of religious education and exercises remained with the 
churches and religious communities. Every crownland set up a 
provincial school board, every school district a district school board 
and every municipality with a school, a local school board to 
supervise elementary schools and teacher training institutions. School 
supervision acts relevant to the individual crownlands were passed in 
subsequent years.

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Today the competent authorities of the first instance are: 1) the 
District School Board for elementary (primary) schools, Hauptschule 
secondary schools, schools for mentally challenged children and 
polytechnic schools; 2) the Provincial School Board for vocational 
schools, most secondary schools (except  Zentrallehranstalten), the 
Academy for Social Workers and the Pedagogical Institutions; 3) the 
Minister for Education for the Zentrallehranstalten, teacher training 
colleges and federal training colleges for social workers and 
caretakers. Competent authorities of the second instance are: 1) the 
Provincial School Board for all primary schools and Hauptschule 
secondary schools providing general education; 2) the Minister for 
Education for vocational schools, most secondary schools (except 
Zentrallehranstalten), for Academies for Social Workers and 
Pedagogical Institutions. The competent authority in the final 
instance for all schools is the Minister for Education. In Vienna the 
Provincial School Board, which is referred to as the Municipal School 
Board for Vienna, also has the competence of a District School Board.

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School supervision (in Austrian legal terminology: Schulinspektion, 
i.e. School inspection) is carried out by provincial, district and 
vocational school inspectors as well as by technical inspectors.

!Literature
K. Haider, Das Werden der staatlichen Schulaufsicht, in: 
Landesschulrat von Niederoesterreich (ed.), 100 Jahre Schulaufsicht in 
Niederoesterreich, 1969.


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