Institutional autonomy, understood as the ability to make decisions in educational centers, continues to be a topic of interest. Mentioned in various educational laws (LOGSE, LOPEG, LOCE, LOE), it seems more like a declaration of intent than a reality.
This contribution reviews the reality of autonomy after the evaluations made at the time (Gairín, 1992), noting that we still operate within very limited frameworks of autonomy, far from those in the rest of Europe, particularly in terms of personnel autonomy, operational structures, and resource management.