# Hungary centralises public schools under the Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance Centre

Date: 2012

On 1 September 2012 the [Klebelsberg Institution Maintenance Centre](/organizations/klebelsberg-centre) (KLIK) began operating as the central maintainer of public schools, created under the human-resources ministry. Local governments lost school-maintenance powers. This Fact is that dated centralisation. It is not the 2023 teachers' status law, not a later Interior takeover of the schools file, and not a personality. Official organisation sits in the government record of the centre; contemporaneous independent reporting records the lock.

## People

- Viktor Orbán: https://factrail.ai/people/viktor-orban

## Drivers

- Executive-Power Concentration: https://factrail.ai/drivers/executive-power-concentration
- Illiberal state capture in Hungary: https://factrail.ai/drivers/orban-illiberal-state-capture

## Sources

- https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/524bd8d4-33ba-4802-891f-d8959831ed5a_en?filename=2025+Rule+of+Law+Report+-+Country+Chapter+Hungary.pdf
- https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0324_EN.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-klik-centralization-2012