The Board of Education is a new administrative authority for the whole school sector, which merges the administrative duties of the Federal Government (responsible for federal schools) and the federal states (responsible for compulsory schooling). The Boards of Education have the standard duties nationwide which were previously entrusted constitutionally to the state government departments and which differed greatly in organisation from region to region. Creation of the Boards of Education as a joint Federal Government and federal state authority thus constitutes a central education authority.
The Boards of Education execute school legislation in its entirety and also execute employment law and staff representation rights for federal and state teachers and other employees in state schools.
Director of Education in upper Austria is Dr Alfred Klampfer.