The article discusses the relationship of strategic management objectives in the general secondary education with the methods and forms of its achievements. As the strategic objective of secondary education serves the reorganization and optimization of compulsory secondary education and increase the possibility of non-formal education received by students outside of school. We consider some examples to support a specified purpose and expressing its specific advantages and disadvantages. Three main types of learning processes. The first – an arbitrary, non-structured learning process through which a person throughout his life acquires most of the knowledge and skills. The second – an informal (or non-formal) education. The third – the formal (school) education. It is shown that the trajectory changes in the content of the formal secondary education in Russian. The basic methods of strategic management of secondary education: funding and administration. The main forms of financing of secondary education on an example of the Voronezh area: financial services strategy; strategy to reduce the share of inefficient charges; Roadmap strategy. The directions of improving the financing of public services of general secondary education: optimizing the distribution of students in educational institutions; optimization of wages of teachers, depending on the population density in classrooms; optimization roadmap in education; Optimization of interaction of educational institutions with municipal and public services; optimization of per capita funding by region. The basic form of the administration of secondary education: a strategy of introduction of new federal education standards, the strategy of horizontal integration secondary educational institutions; management strategy through the levels of hierarchy; distance learning strategy. The possibilities of improving the administration of the main forms of secondary education on an example of the Voronezh region and other regions of Russia.

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