<Reseach Notes>Control over the Board of Education by Mayor under New System of Board of Education : Report on the Survey of the Council on Educational Policy and Educational Outline in 2015

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the pattern of ex-ante control of the Boards of Education by mayors under the new Board of Education system, using the principal-agent theory. In particular, I focus on the council on educational policy and the educational outline for annual performance in prefectures and designated cities, using an analysis of aggregate data. According to the principal-agent theory, this system gives them a power to control over the Boards of Education by mayors. The following is the finding of this research. In some municipalities, mayors tend to strengthen a control over the Boards of Education: on the other hand, in the other municipalities, mayors tend to loosen a control over the Boards of Education. As a result, mayors do not always exert power to control the Boards of Education