Nadezhda P. Sovetova

current regulatory legal act regulating educational activities in the Russian Federation is considered in the study. Special attention is paid to the legal framework for state regulation of preschool institutions engaged in correction of children's speech disorders. The analysis of the existing measures of state support was conducted, the quality of services provided in child care center is assessed, problem areas are identified, ways of improving the forms of state support were proposed according to the materials selected as research area of a municipal education.

the development of open information exchange between local authorities and civil society should increase the level of public confidence. In this regard, the study of transparency at the local level becomes extremely important, since it affects the social and economic development of the territory. In the course of the theoretical study, it was found that there is no unified approach to the definition of transparency and its place in the scientific and practical field. It is revealed that, having a theoretical basis, transparency is not established in the legislation of the Russian Federation....