As education represents the situation of society and forms its prospect, state regional policy in the sphere of education becomes a determinative factor of innovative changes in Ukraine that undoubtedly, actualizes the theme of the research. The following methods of scientific research were used: analysis of administrative, pedagogical literature, scientific and foreign sources, normative and legal documents and materials about education and also comparative analysis and synthesis, prognostication and modulation. The target is to research the experience of the European countries on creation of an effective model of educational establishment management at the regional level, as one of strategic directions of administrative reform that will assist to quality upgrading of education and approaching of Ukraine to the European standards, to work out suggestions concerning the improvement of the system of management of educational establishments at regional level taking into account experience of the leading European countries that can be adapted to the Ukrainian model of management. Reformation of the system of state management of educational sphere with the use of foreign experience of humanization and democratization of management processes allows finding optimal correlation of centralization and decentralization of management of education at the regional level and offer such management model that will connect the harmonically creative potential of public and professionalism of senior managers, that will create conditions for overcoming both interdepartmental problems and between different levels of executive and representative power.