ABSTRACT
In Hungary, the centralized regulation of public education began with Maria Theresa (Ratio Educationis, 1777). Subsequently, an intensive change was made during the World War II era and the communism that followed. From 1948 onward, attacks and strong propaganda occurred against churches, and both church and private schools became state owned. In 1989 democratic political change aimed at alleviating the damage caused by communism and to compensate the churches. Since 2012, the new Constitution has stabilized schools but has also raised new political and legal difficulties that need to be solved.
