Empirical Analysis Of High-school Educational Resources Inter-area Balanced Allocation

As a part of basic education, Ordinary High-school Education is a link between compulsory education and higher education. It not only plays an essential role in the whole education system, but also guides both compulsory and higher education. Nowadays, we often attach great importance to compulsory and higher education. In the meantime, High-school Education also needs to be valued.The difference of High-school Education resources allocation between areas in China is huge:the equalization degree is insufficient and polarized phenomenon is serious. Eastern regions are in the advantageous position because of their rich economic resources; while central and western regions are at a distinct disadvantage by lack of capability to supply education resources; besides, the High-school Education resources allocation level in some minority regions is higher than other regions in the same area with the support of national policy. The main factors influencing inter-region balanced allocation of High-school Education resources can be divided into economic elements, institutional elements, systemic elements and policy elements. Firstly, the results of Multiple Regression Test show that economic development level, local financial resource, transfer payment level, financial preference, fiscal decentralization degree and urbanization level significantly influence the inter-region balanced allocation of High-school Education resources. Secondly, Comparative Static Analysis is also conducted and it concludes that household registration restriction contraries to the premise of inter-area balanced allocation. Thirdly, "County-centered" High-school Education funding system didn’t get rid of the traditional "domain-centered" management system. Fourthly, counties’financial regulated scale is limited, so it’s hard for counties to resolve High-school Education funding shortage problem. Lastly, the prolonged neglect toward High-school Education and school-running concepts of "developing with priority" and "developing with difference" led the inter-regionresources allocation to the polarization.In essential, the development imbalance of High-school Education is a chain reaction process like "Dominoes". Education system or policy is just one chain in it. The development imbalance of High-school Education is rooted in incompatibility between educational system’s public orientation, educational reform’s utilitarian orientation and educational practice’s tool orientation. First, the public orientation means justice, equality and universality; it requires that educational reform and practice fully embody the basic idea of balanced development. However, the utilitarian orientation of educational reform eroded the publicity and ran contrary to balance ideal; the tool orientation brought the development of High-school Education to the erroneous zone of "efficiency model" and stuck in it, resulting in the trouble that the goal of equilibrium can’t be reached even with the aspiration of balance development. In future, in the pursuit of inter-area high school education resource allocation equalization, the new reform paths of High-school Education funding mechanism should be further explored; High-school financial investment and management level should be raised; balance transfer payment system of High-school financial input should be established; marketing mechanism should be introduce in and fundraising channels should be broadened; transitional and diverse teacher flow mechanism should be discovered; laws and regulations about High-school Education should be perfected and the discriminatory household registration management for UEE should be reformed.