# The Free Market Foundation says the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act debate is framed as School Governing Body autonomy versus state power; however, the real issue is South Africa’s hybrid education governance model from 1996. The Act aims to strengthen governance within the education sector. The foundation says the problem is not simply that SGBs have too much power, or that the state has too little. It says the problem is that the system gives different institutions overlapping responsibilities while expecting them to share a common understanding.
FMF says the education governance crisis is bigger than the BELA Act