The investigator Lena Holmdahl, who presents her proposal on Svenska Dagbladets debate page, has been tasked with drawing up a "national school grant norm". This is in order to achieve increased equal resource distribution across the country and review the need for different compensation between municipal schools and private schools.
The reason why the municipality should be able to reduce the school grant to private schools has to do with a responsibility that only the municipality has.
A municipal head must be able to offer students a place at a school and cannot refuse students a place like an individual head. The municipal schools must be prepared to accept more or fewer students depending on, for example, different sizes of year groups, the number of asylum seekers or if a private school, for example, is put into bankruptcy.
”Since premises and personnel are resources that cannot be sold or acquired anew with short notice, there is a lack of flexibility in the adjustment. The cost per student has therefore been higher over time when the student cohorts have been smaller,” the investigator writes,
