Analýza financování primárního a sekundárního školství České republiky v letech 2006 až 2024

This thesis analyzes the financing of primary and secondary education in the Czech Republic in the period 2006–2024 and its relationship to selected indicators of educational outcomes and graduates’ labour market outcomes. It focuses on evaluating the efficiency of public education expenditure through its impact on student performance and on the unemployment rate of recent graduates. The results show that the relationship between public expenditure and educational outcomes is differentiated according to the type of indicator and educational level. A statistically significant positive effect was found for TIMSS results and for the rate of failure in the school-leaving (maturita) examination, while no statistically significant relationship was identified for PISA results. The effect of expenditure on teachers’ salaries is evident mainly in TIMSS results and maturita outcomes, whereas no statistically significant effect was found for PISA. In the case of graduate unemployment, no direct statistically significant effect of public education expenditure was found. Instead, macroeconomic conditions, represented by GDP per capita, proved to be the key determinant. Multiple regression analysis made it possible to evaluate the efficiency of public education spending in the Czech context and to identify differing sensitivity of individual stages of the education system to financial inputs. The results indicate that the effectiveness of educational investment is determined not only by its volume, but also by the structure of expenditure and the nature of the educational process at different stages of education.