The education levy must address the basic needs of the national education system, focussing on the infra-structural development and maintenance, together with supplying the following basics:

1. Furniture.

2. Infra-structural adequacy.

3. School material and equipment.

4. Science lab facility

5. Sporting facility, supplies and services.

6. Assistance to needy and Special children.

7. Scholastic achievement opportunity for nationals.

8. Safe, adequate, efficient school bus system.

9. Free textbooks.

Antigua and Barbuda must reconcile the need for fiscal sustainability in the area of public finance with those in the area of education.

Government has made a political commitment in favour of educational development and has declared sensitivity to the conditions of schools through the effecting of the CDB Basic Needs Loan Project for schools and personnel output improvement in the sector in the princely sum of an initial forty million E.C. dollars ($40M). The Policy Directorate has repeatedly stressed that while education is a common responsibility for the state and for civil society, it would strengthen its effort and continue to accord priority to education within the constraints of its fiscal capability, within improved management and administration expertise toward a cost effective and productive utility of scarce public funds allocated to education.

Public Education Management Reform Structure