This booklet deals with the legal aspects of educational planning. Basing his study in part on the French system - a consummate example of statute law - the author develops the essential aspects of the legal framework governing education, and provides educational planners with an analytical frame of reference showing the role that law plays in the planning process for education systems. Far from consisting of mere social regulations imposed by the political authorities, this framework offers planners invaluable instruments for attaining objectives, once they correctly perceive the way administrative rules are organized, and the responsibility of each player within the system. By analyzing the legal framework of school systems, this work draws attention to the importance of legal provisions - whether they have grown out of national traditions or international conventions - through an accurate identification of the elements that constitute the educational planning process, on the one hand, and an in-depth study of the relation between law and the instruments, key players, basic rules and procedures of educational planning, on the other.
