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Gerda SULAThe Perception of School Principals in Kosovoregarding Parental Involvement in the SchoolGovernanceEdaVULAFaculty of Education, University of PrishtinaTeuta DANUZANational Qualifications Authority, PrishtinaABSTRACTThe 2008 Cross-National Survey of School Principals in South East Europe (SEE)countries has documented the need to improve factors that affect communicationwith parents and the possibility of the participation of parents in decision-makingprocesses. According to the results of the survey conducted in Kosovo (OSI, 2009),this communication is mainly established as one-way, “school-parent” direction,where parent is more likely to listen than to express his position.The present study builds on current survey 1 on the communication withparents’, parents’ beliefs about the relationship with their children’s schools andactivities related to the school’s governance. Based on the perception of schoolprincipals, this study aims to evaluate the level of parental involvement inschool governance and impact of parent – school communication on the parentalinvolvement in decision-making at school level.Correlational analysis and standard regression analysis were used to examinethe relationship between parental involvement in decision-making as dependentvariable and parent-school communication practices as independent variables. Therelation of communication variables with parental involvement in school decisionmaking seems to be modest. However, the parents’ involvement is still based moreon “invitations” from the school rather than on any systematic strategy.Key words: parent-school communication; parent involvement in school; decisionmaking;school principals1. OSI 2009, http://www.see-educoop.net/aeiq/reports/kosovo_report.pdfAlbanian Journal of Educational Studies 70