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School Autonomy and Accountability Ratings and Data

A description of the School Autonomy and Accountability scoring methodology and the meaning of categorical ratings displayed below are available in evidence-based frameworks.

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	Senegal Country Report 2012 (data available upon request)
Level of autonomy in the planning and management of school budget	Latent
Legal authority over the management of the operational budget	Emerging
	Senegal
Justification	The operational budget of primary schools is not directly managed by school directors. Instead, they are managed by IDENs and local authorities.
Legal authority over the management of the non-teaching staff salaries	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification	Non-teaching staff salaries are paid by local authorities.
Legal authority over the management of teacher salaries	Latent
	Senegal
Justification	Teacher salaries are determined by the central government’s salary scale. Non-teaching staff salaries are paid by local authorities.
Legal authority to raise additional funds for the school	Emerging
	Senegal
Justification	School directors can request monies from such funds as the Decentralization Allocation Fund (French acronym, FDD) and Local Authority Equipment Funds (French acronym, FECL) at the commune level. APE can collect and manage its fee as private contribution.
Collaborative budget planning	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Level of autonomy in personnel management	Latent
Autonomy in teacher appointment and deployment decisions	Latent
	Senegal
Justification	Teachers are appointed and deployed to schools by the Ministry of Education. IAs and IDENs are responsible for the intraregional and intradepartmental transfer of teachers according to the local situation, complying as much as possible with decisions made
Autonomy in non-teaching staff appointment and deployment decisions	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Autonomy in school principal appointment and deployment decisions	Emerging
	Senegal
Justification	School directors are appointed by the central government (the Human Resource Department of the Ministry of Education), with the presence of teacher trade unions, based on predetermined criteria. Their performance is evaluated by IDENs.
Role of the school council on school governance	Latent
Participation of the school councils in budget preparation	Latent
	Senegal
Justification	The CGEs do not participate in the preparation of school budgets, which are managed by IDENs and local authorities.
Participation of the school councils in financial oversight	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Participation of the school council in personnel management	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Participation of the school councils in school activities	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Participation of the school councils in learning inputs	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Transparency in community participation	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
School and student assessment	Established
Existence and Frequency of school assessments	Established
	Senegal
Justification	A standardized student assessment (SNERS) is administered every two years at the national level and a standardized student assessment of every primary school grade is administered quarterly at the IDEN level. A certified examination of primary education (
Use of school assessments for making school adjustments	Emerging
	Senegal
Justification	IDENs conduct school assessments and send the results to school directors for reflection.
Existence and Frequency of standardized student assessments	Advanced
	Senegal
Justification	A standardized student assessment (SNERS) is administered every two years at the national level and a standardized student assessment of every primary school grade is administered quarterly at the IDEN level. A certified examination of primary education (
Use of standardized student assessments for pedagogical, operational, and personnel adjustments	Established
	Senegal
Justification	Within the framework of SNERS, the Ministry of Education analyzes student assessment results and shares its analysis with the IDENs. The results of student assessment organized by IDENs are analyzed at the IDEN level for pedagogical reflection.
Publication of student assessments	Emerging
	Senegal
Justification	In terms of student assessments organized by IDENs, schools are given ranks within each school district and the results are shared publicly. The results of the CFEE are made public and schools conduct pedagogical reflection to improve their performance. B
School Accountability	Latent
Guidelines for the use of results of student assessments	Latent
	Senegal
Justification	The CGEs support school and student assessments by providing monies for stationery goods, but they are not involved in school and student assessments in a manner that they use guidelines to assess these results.
Analysis of school and student performance	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Degree of Financial accountability at the central level, regional, municipal, local and school level	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Degree of Accountability in school operations	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification
Degree of learning accountability	Not Available *
	Senegal
Justification

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