- Implementation of the state policy in the field of education and assistance to local governments in creating conditions for meeting the educational needs of the population;
- Organization of universal secondary education for all school children;
managing the activities of educational institutions to register children before they receive secondary education;
- Ensuring effective educational activities in educational institutions of the city, the introduction of new pedagogical technologies that ensure the development of the essential forces of the child's personality;
- Development and implementation of a science-based system for monitoring the quality of education;
- Deepening the processes of democratization of management in the field of education;
- Creation of conditions for the development of creative activity of heads of pedagogical collectives of educational institutions of the city;
- Organization of guardianship and guardianship of minors left without parental care;
- Providing effective state support for the development of the private sector of education, ensuring control over the quality of the educational process and their compliance with state standards of education;
- Organizing, in accordance with the established procedure, together with local Executive bodies, free transportation of children from remote rural areas to school;
- Development of the culture of management work, its legal, informational and technical support;
- Organization of mass work in educational institutions on introduction to a healthy lifestyle.