Abstract: The article is devoted to the grounds for organisation of consulting service at the federal, regional, and municipal levels of the system of general education (government authorities). Acting within the framework of the pedagogic comparative linguistics and based on the results of the monitoring of the education systems in 28 countries of the EU, the authors define 8 best consulting practices at the national, regional and local levels in the following countries: Luxembourg, Portugal, Italy, Chech Republic, Netherlands, Spain, France and Finland. The authors prove that consulting technologies may be used in the Russian Federation system of general education as the benchmarking. The authors also emphasize the need to analyze the best practice and reformation of the system of general education in the EU countries, and to create consulting service models at the national, regional and local levels of the Russian Federation. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the authors offer their own algorithm of consulting of school development at the national (federal) level. For the first time in the academic literature the author makes a conclusion about the need to develop the structure of the portfolio of the local consulting school service and approaches thereto as well as the need to establish the rules and procedures of the consulting service based on the monitoring of the resorts of citizens.