Article 6. Competence of local representative and executive bodies in the field of education of the Law on Education

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1. Local representative bodies:

1) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/03/2013 No. 124-V (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

2) decide on preferential travel for students by public transport (except taxis);

3) exercise other powers in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan to ensure the rights and legitimate interests of citizens.

IZPI's note! Paragraph 2 is provided for in the wording of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/14/2026 No. 350-VIII (effective from 01/01/2027).

2. The local executive body of the region:

1) implements the state policy in the field of education;

2) ensures the quality of the provision of technical and vocational, post-secondary education;

3) ensures the education of persons (children) with special educational needs, the creation of special conditions for them to receive education in educational institutions, taking into account the principles of universal design and (or) reasonable adaptation;

4) provides education for gifted children, as well as children undergoing advanced pre-conscription training, in specialized educational institutions;

5) organizes the ordering and provision of educational organizations implementing educational programs of technical and vocational, post-secondary education with forms of state-issued documents on education and monitors their use;

6) creates, reorganizes and liquidates, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, state educational organizations that implement educational programs of additional education for children, as well as, in coordination with the authorized body in the field of education, state educational organizations that implement educational programs of technical and vocational, post-secondary education, specialized general education and special educational programs, children's and youth sports schools;

7) provides every five years an accident assessment of state educational organizations that implement specialized general education and special educational programs, educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary, and additional education (with the exception of educational organizations in institutions of the penal enforcement (penitentiary) system) that have been in operation for more than thirty years, as well as an earthquake resistance assessment government organizations, implementing specialized general education and special educational programs, educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary and additional education located in earthquake-prone regions;

8) approves the state educational order for preschool education and training, the amount of parental fees;

9) approves the state educational order for the training of personnel with higher and postgraduate education;

10) places a state educational order for the training of personnel with technical and professional, post-secondary, higher and postgraduate education, taking into account the proposals of regional chambers of entrepreneurs and interested organizations;

11) approves the state educational order for the training of personnel with technical and vocational, post-secondary education;

12) approves the state educational order for additional education of children in organizations of additional education for children who do not provide educational and recreational services to minors, within the limits of budget funds approved in local budgets for the relevant financial year;

13) approves and places a state educational order for special psychological and pedagogical support for children with disabilities within the limits of budget funds approved in local budgets for the relevant financial year;

14) provides logistical support to state educational organizations that implement educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education, as well as specialized general education and special educational programs (with the exception of educational organizations in institutions of the penal enforcement (penitentiary) system);

15) provides for the construction and reconstruction of the state facility of educational organizations at the expense of budgetary funds and extra-budgetary funds in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

16) directs funds to provide financial and material assistance to students and pupils of educational organizations of regional and district (city of regional significance) scales from families eligible for state targeted social assistance, as well as from families not receiving state targeted social assistance in which the average per capita income is below the subsistence level, and to children-orphans, children left without parental care, living in families, children from families requiring emergency assistance as a result of emergency situations, and other categories of students and pupils, determined by the collegial governing body of the educational organization, in the amount of at least two percent of the budget funds allocated for the current maintenance of secondary schools and the placement of a state educational order for secondary education;

17) annually, until August 1, ensures the purchase and delivery of textbooks and teaching materials on paper and electronic media for state educational organizations that implement educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education, as well as specialized general education and special educational programs based on government orders;

18) ensures the organization and holding of Olympiads and competitions of scientific projects in general education subjects of the regional scale, competitions of performers and competitions of professional skills of the regional scale, competitions in initial military training of the regional scale;

19) ensures the participation of students who are regional winners in Olympiads in general education subjects, competitions of scientific projects at the national level according to the list determined by the authorized body in the field of education;

20) ensures the participation of students who are regional winners in competitions of performers, sports competitions at the national level, as well as competitions of professional skills at the national and (or) international levels according to the list determined by the authorized body in the field of education;

21) organizes medical care for students and pupils of educational organizations in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

22) ensures the quality of additional education for children provided at the regional level;

23) ensures the quality of staff retraining and advanced training of teachers of state educational organizations that implement specialized general education and special educational programs, educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary, and additional education;

24) provides examination of the mental health of children and adolescents, provision of psychological, medical and pedagogical counseling;

25) provides rehabilitation and social adaptation of children and adolescents with developmental problems;

26) provides state support for orphaned children and children left without parental care in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

27) organizes free and reduced-price meals for certain categories of students and pupils in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

28) promotes the employment of persons who have graduated from educational organizations implementing educational programs of technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and postgraduate education on the basis of a state educational order;

29) annually, by April 15, submits to the authorized bodies in the field of education and health applications on the need for personnel in rural areas with subsequent employment according to the submitted applications.;

30) appoints and dismisses the first head of the regional education management body.;

31) carries out educational monitoring;

32) annually, within the established time limits, ensures the collection of statistical observation data in the digital facilities of the authorized body in the field of education;

33) ensures the functioning of juvenile adaptation centers and support centers for children in need of special social services;

34) provides conditions for persons detained in juvenile adaptation centers and support centers for children in need of special social services;

35) provides assistance to the Boards of Trustees;

36) provides high-quality personnel support to state educational organizations that implement specialized general education and special educational programs, as well as educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and postgraduate education;

37) issues a permit for training in the form of an externship in educational organizations that implement specialized general education and special educational programs, as well as educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education in the fields of culture and art, physical culture and sports;

38) provides the material and technical base of regional methodological offices (centers);

39) ensures the quality of training of qualified workers and mid-level specialists in dual training;

40) pays the winners of the competition – the state organizations of technical and vocational, post-secondary education the grant "The best organization of technical and vocational, post-secondary education";

41) provides methodological guidance to the psychological service in educational organizations, including those located in districts (cities of regional significance);

42) rotates the first heads of state educational organizations implementing specialized general education and special educational programs, as well as educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education in accordance with the rules for the rotation of the first heads of state educational organizations;

43) exercises, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3. The local executive body of the city of republican significance and the capital:

1) excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/03/2013 No. 124-V (effective after ten calendar days after its first official publication);

2) organizes the registration of children of preschool and school age, their education until they receive secondary education;

3) ensures the quality of secondary education, including evening (shift) education, and secondary education provided through residential education organizations (with the exception of educational organizations in correctional institutions of the penal correction (penitentiary) system);

4) organizes and ensures the quality of the provision of technical and vocational, post-secondary education;

5) creates, reorganizes and liquidates, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, state educational organizations implementing general educational programs for preschool education and training, primary, basic secondary and general secondary education and additional educational programs for children, as well as, in coordination with the authorized body in the field of education, state educational organizations implementing educational programs technical and vocational, post-secondary education, specialized general education and special educational programs, children's and youth sports schools;

6) - 6-2) are excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 24.10.2011 No. 487-IV (effective six months after its first official publication);

7) approves the state educational order for the training of personnel with higher and postgraduate education;

7-1) approves the state educational order for preschool education and training, the amount of parental fees;

7-2) approves the state educational order for secondary education in state educational organizations;

7-3) approves the state educational order for the training of personnel with technical and vocational, post-secondary education;

7-4) Approves the state educational order for additional education of children within the limits of the budget funds approved in local budgets for the relevant financial year.;

7-5) approves and places a state educational order for special psychological and pedagogical support for children with disabilities within the limits of budget funds approved in local budgets for the relevant fiscal year;

7-6) places a state educational order for the training of personnel with technical and professional, post-secondary, higher and postgraduate education, taking into account the proposals of regional chambers of entrepreneurs and interested organizations;

8) organizes the participation of students in the unified national testing;

9) annually, until August 1, organizes the purchase and delivery of textbooks and teaching materials for state organizations of secondary education, as well as educational organizations implementing educational programs of technical and vocational education, specialized general education and special educational programs;

10) ensures the quality of the provision of additional education for children;

11) allocates funds to provide financial and material assistance to students and pupils of educational institutions from families eligible for state targeted social assistance, as well as from families who do not receive state targeted social assistance, in which the average per capita income is below the subsistence level, and orphans, children left without parental care; those living in families, children from families requiring emergency assistance as a result of emergency situations, and other categories of students and pupils, determined by the collegial management body of the educational organization, in the amount of at least two percent of the budget funds allocated for the current maintenance of secondary schools and the placement of a state educational order for secondary education;

12) provides logistical support to state educational organizations (with the exception of educational organizations in correctional institutions of the penal system) and organizations of preschool education and training;

12-1) provides construction and reconstruction of secondary education facilities at the expense of the Educational Infrastructure Support Fund in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

12-2) provides, every five years, an accident assessment survey of state preschool organizations, organizations of secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary and additional education (with the exception of educational organizations in correctional institutions of the penal (penitentiary) system) that have been in operation for more than thirty years, as well as an earthquake safety survey of state preschool organizations, organizations of secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary and additional education, located in earthquake-prone regions;

13) provides education for persons (children) with special educational needs, creation of special conditions for them to receive education in educational institutions, accessibility of buildings, structures and premises of educational institutions in accordance with state building codes and standards, taking into account the principles of universal design and (or) reasonable accommodation;

14) provides education for gifted children, as well as children undergoing advanced pre-conscription training, in specialized educational institutions;

15) ensures the organization and holding of school Olympiads, competitions of scientific projects in general education subjects, competitions in primary military training, competitions of performers and competitions of professional skills on the scale of the city of republican significance, the capital;

15-1) ensures the participation of students who are regional winners in Olympiads in general education subjects, competitions of scientific projects at the national level according to the list determined by the authorized body in the field of education;

15-2) ensures the participation of students who are regional winners in performance competitions, national-level sports competitions, as well as national and (or) international-level professional skill competitions according to the list determined by the authorized body in the field of education.;

16) provides examination of the mental health of children and adolescents and provision of psychological, medical and pedagogical advisory assistance to the population;

17) provides rehabilitation and social adaptation of children and adolescents with developmental problems;

18) ensures the quality of staff retraining and advanced training of employees of state educational organizations funded by budgetary funds;

19) provides state support for orphaned children and children left without parental care in accordance with the established procedure;

20) organizes, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, medical care for students and pupils of educational organizations, with the exception of preschool organizations and secondary education organizations that do not belong to boarding schools;

21) organizes, in accordance with the procedure provided for by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, free and reduced-price meals for certain categories of students and pupils;

22) promotes the employment of persons who have graduated from educational organizations implementing educational programs of technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and postgraduate education on the basis of a state educational order;

23) submits proposals to the maslikhat on preferential travel for students on public transport (except taxis);

24) provides organizations of preschool education and training with the necessary methodological and advisory assistance;

24-1) Is excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 05/03/2022 No. 118-VII (effective ten calendar days after the date of its first official publication). 24-2) Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 02/23/2024 No. 64-VIII (effective sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).

25) appoints and dismisses the first head of the educational management body.;

25-1) organizes the ordering and provision of educational organizations implementing general educational programs of basic secondary, general secondary education and educational programs of technical and vocational, post-secondary education with forms of state-issued documents on education and monitors their use;

25-2) carries out educational monitoring;

25-3) provides assistance to the Boards of Trustees;

25-4) ensures the quality of staffing of state educational organizations;

25-5) provides methodological guidance to the psychological service in educational organizations;

25-6) pays the "Best Secondary Education Organization" grant to the winners of the competition – state organizations of secondary education;

25-7) issues a permit for training in the form of an externship in organizations of basic secondary and general secondary education, in educational organizations that implement specialized general education and special educational programs, as well as educational programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education in the fields of culture and art, physical culture and sports;

25-8) provides the material and technical base of teaching classrooms;

25-9) pays the winners of the competition – the state organizations of technical and vocational, post-secondary education the grant "The best organization of technical and vocational, post-secondary education";

26) ensures the functioning of juvenile adaptation centers and support centers for children in need of special social services;

27) provides conditions for persons detained in juvenile adaptation centers and support centers for children in need of special social services;

27-1) rotates the first heads of state educational organizations in accordance with the rules of rotation of the first heads of state educational organizations;

28) exercises, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

3-1. Local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance and the capital carry out the functions assigned to them through the relevant educational management bodies and the offices of district akims in cities of republican significance and the capital.

Education departments located in districts, towns, or districts in cities of regional and republican significance, and the capital are accountable to and controlled by the education departments of regions, cities of republican significance, and the capital.

IZPI's note! Paragraph 4 is provided for in the wording of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 07/14/2026 No. 350-VIII (effective from 01/01/2027).

4. Local executive body of the district (city of regional significance):

1) organizes the registration of children of preschool and school age, their education until they receive secondary education;

2) ensures the quality of the provision of primary, basic secondary and general secondary education, including evening (shift) education, and secondary education provided through residential type education organizations (with the exception of educational organizations in institutions of the penal enforcement (penitentiary) system);

3) creates, reorganizes and liquidates, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, state educational organizations that implement general educational programs for preschool education and training, primary, basic secondary and general secondary education and educational programs for additional education for children, with the exception of educational and recreational programs for minors, as well as children's and youth sports schools;

4) approves the state educational order for additional education services for children, with the exception of educational and recreational services for minors, within the limits of budget funds approved in local budgets for the relevant financial year;

5) organizes the participation of students in the unified national testing;

6) annually, by August 1, organizes the purchase and delivery of textbooks and teaching materials to state educational organizations that implement general educational programs for pre-school education, and secondary education organizations in the amount predicted by the educational authorities for the academic year;

7) ensures the quality of the provision of additional education services for children, with the exception of educational and recreational services for minors;

8) provides material and technical support to state organizations of secondary education (with the exception of educational organizations in institutions of the penal (penitentiary) system) and organizations of preschool education and training;

9) provides financing and carrying out of capital and current repairs of the state educational organizations;

10) provides every five years a state accident assessment of state preschool organizations, organizations of secondary and additional education for children, with the exception of organizations of additional education for children providing educational and recreational services to minors and educational organizations in institutions of the penal enforcement (penitentiary) system that have been in operation for more than thirty years, as well as earthquake resistance state preschool organizations, organizations of additional education for children, with the exception of additional education organizations for children that provide educational and recreational services to minors located in earthquake-prone regions.;

11) ensures the organization and holding of school Olympiads, competitions of scientific projects in general education subjects, competitions in primary military training, sports competitions, competitions of performers and competitions of professional skills;

12) ensures the quality of staff retraining and advanced training of employees of state educational organizations of preschool, secondary and additional education, financed from budgetary funds;

13) organizes medical care for students and pupils of educational organizations in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

14) provides organizations of preschool education and training with the necessary methodological and advisory assistance;

15) appoints and dismisses the first head of the Education Department;

16) organizes the ordering and provision of educational organizations implementing general educational programs of basic secondary and general secondary education with forms of state-issued documents on education and monitors their use;

17) carries out educational monitoring;

18) provides assistance to the Boards of Trustees;

19) ensures the quality of staffing of state educational organizations;

20) issues a study permit in the form of an external course in organizations of basic secondary and general secondary education;

21) provides the material and technical base of teaching classrooms;

22) conducts the rotation of the first heads of state educational organizations in accordance with the rules for the rotation of the first heads of state educational organizations;

23) provides compulsory employment and housing for orphaned children and children left without parental care;

24) promotes the employment of persons who have completed their studies in educational institutions;

25) promotes the provision of housing and living conditions for young professionals who have arrived to work in educational organizations located in rural areas;

26) submits proposals to the maslikhat on preferential travel for students on public transport (except taxis);

27) provides state support for orphaned children and children left without parental care in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;

28) pays the "Best Secondary Education Organization" grant to the winners of the competition – state organizations of secondary education;

29) organizes free transportation of students to the nearest school and back if there is no school in the relevant village, village, rural district;

30) exercises, in the interests of local government, other powers assigned to local executive bodies by the laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

5. Excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated December 27, 2019 No. 291-VI (effective from 01.01.2021);

6. Local executive bodies of regions, cities of republican significance and the capital provide annual financing for the construction, reconstruction and capital repairs of state facilities of secondary education organizations in the amount determined in accordance with the rules for financing and carrying out construction, reconstruction and capital repairs of state facilities of secondary education.

The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 27, 2007 No. 319-III.

The article was amended and supplemented by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated July 14, 2026, No. 350-VIII SAM

This Law regulates public relations in the field of education, defines the basic principles of state policy in this field and is aimed at ensuring the constitutional right of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, as well as foreigners and stateless persons permanently residing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, to education.

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