Central level 

The central government is responsible for:

• General provisions on education;
• The assessment of the education system;
• The definition and distribution of funds, and
• Environmental information and education;
• Administrative functions and duties regarding military schools and courses relating to defence and public security.
  

Provinces

Provincial authorities are responsible for:

• Secondary education, including:

• The creation, mergers and closures of schools;
• The definition of organisation plans;
• Support to the disabled and handicapped persons;
• Facilities;
• The suspension of classes in case of emergency;
• Premises;
• Control and dissolution of collegiate bodies;
• Organisation of services to assure the right to study (e.g. transport to sport centres outside the school, support for the purchase of textbooks, etc.);
• Initiatives and promotion activities, and
• Creation and control

• Artistic education, and
• Administrative and management support to scholastic autonomy.

Municipalities

Municipal authorities are responsible for:

• Primary school, including:

• The provision and ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of school premises;
• The creation, mergers and closures of schools;
• The definition of organisation plans;
• Support to the disabled and handicapped persons;
• Facilities;
• The suspension of classes in case of emergency;
• Initiatives and promotion activities, and
• Creation and control.

• School-related services, including canteens, school transportation, assistance to the disabled and handicapped persons ;
• Lower secondary school;
• Pre-school childcare;
• Adult training;
• Integrated training;
• Actions aiming at education equal opportunities, and
• Supporting actions aiming at the consistency and continuity between the different schools levels.

Sources

Constitution, Article 117.

Decreto Legislativo 31 marzo 1998, n. 112 "Conferimento di funzioni e compiti amministrativi dello Stato alle regioni ed agli enti locali, in attuazione del capo I della legge 15 marzo 1997, n. 59" (G.U.  n. 92 del 21 aprile 1998 - Supplemento Ordinario n. 77 (Rettifica G.U. n. 116 del 21 maggio 1997) [Legislative Decree 112/1998].

Ministry of Education, Universities and Research