Evaluation of education development in municipal territories

One of the priorities of the regional educational policy is looking for the ways and mechanisms to obtain the information necessary for the regulation of educational system in municipal territories. The article presents the authors' rating methodology which allows them to provide authorities with transparent evaluation of regional educational systems. A pilot phase for monitoring of the educational system in the municipalities of the Vologda Oblast has been carried out based on the developed system of indicators. The authors have compared the developmental levels of socio-economic sphere and educational system in municipalities.