the decentralisation process appears
to be the introduction by management of objectives and results as instruments
for governing. This was expected to make the school system more
appropriate and effective (Lewin et al., 2014). Waldow (2008) described
these intentions by saying: “the state shall no longer be responsible and shall
no longer control the conditions (input) for education but shall control the
results (output) of education” (p. 142, own translation). The most crucial
step in the decentralisation process was municipalisation, which came with
the Gov. Bill, 1989/90:41. The main implications of municipalisation were
that the state was no longer the teachers´ employer; instead, each municipality
had direct responsibility for running all educational provisions for students
living in that municipality.