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According to the Council Resolution on encouraging the political participation of young people in democratic life in Europe (2015 / C 417/02), the characteristics of effective and real youth political participation processes include feedback and comprehensive monitoring of authorities'' decisions and the relevance of these decisions to young people. Unfortunately, this monitoring is carried out poorly or not at all on the educational policies in Romania, reason for which the civil society in our country found out much too late. For exemple, in 2020, in the Romanian Parliament, through an ad-hoc amendment, access students in sex education was restricted without a debate with specialists in the sciences of education. The project Romanian Education Monitor will mean, first of all, the growth by the Romanian Academic Society of a generation of watchdogs in the field of educational policies. Expected outcomes include recruiting and training 15 young people aged between 15 and 35, who will analyze and comment on the political agenda in the field of education, will present the biographies of parliamentarians and will analyze the political statements of local elected officials in the field of education, reporting fake news and violations of the law. The instrument EduLeaks 2.0 tool will be developed on the website, through which any citizen can report cases of non-compliance with national education law, academic imposture, conflicts of interest, cases of non-compliance with the principle of decision-making transparency, discriminatory attitudes in pre-university and university schools, cases plagiarism etc. The project is built on the belief that at the end, the activities will increase the involvement of citizens in relation to education policies at national and local level, through their coherent, regular information on the debate on education policies in Parliament, in an accessible and inclusive way, to increase the legitimacy of educational policies.