Many public primary and secondary schools in Zhengzhou have branch schools. The new Compulsory Education Law stipulates that "the nature of public schools shall not be changed in any name or in disguised form". How will Zhengzhou solve this problem? Yesterday, the relevant person in charge of Zhengzhou Education Bureau answered all kinds of changes after the implementation of the new law.
Construction of extracurricular activity base to replace remedial classes
The proliferation of various make-up classes makes the summer vacation of primary and secondary school students called "the third semester". Will this situation improve after the new law first writes "quality education" into the legal provisions?
Zhang Shucan, director of the Development Planning and Regulations Department of Zhengzhou Education Bureau, said that "quality education" has been talked about for many years, but it is only a policy orientation, and it is essentially a change in exam-oriented education. "Little chubby pier", "bean sprouts" and "four eyes" still exist.
Since "quality education" has been written into law, it is bound to carry out mandatory reforms in classroom teaching, evaluation system and social practice. The classroom teaching reform in Zhengzhou is already under way; The reform of the evaluation system can only achieve real results under the premise of the reform of the college entrance examination admission system, so the significant changes will first be reflected in the reform of social practice.
At present, there are youth extracurricular activity centers in Jinshui District and Zhongyuan District of Zhengzhou City. The youth social practice base invested by Zhengzhou Education Bureau 200 1 in xinzheng city has been put into use. After the promulgation of the new law, the construction of activity bases will be funded by the government, and at least one supporting extracurricular activity base will be built in each county, which will be open to students free of charge after completion.
In addition, school libraries, stadiums and other resources should be opened in the future holidays, and the community should undertake the task of organizing some activities for primary and secondary school students during the holidays. By then, students' holidays will no longer be filled with various make-up classes.
Governing "branch schools"
There is no "shock" therapy.
The new Compulsory Education Law clearly stipulates that "schools shall not be divided into key schools and non-key schools, and schools shall not be divided into key classes and non-key classes". "People's governments at or above the county level and their education administrative departments shall not change the nature of public schools in any name or in disguise". Does this mean that Zhengzhou will stop all branch schools and school lieutenant colonel like Shenyang and Tianjin?
Zhang Shucan said that only by truly achieving a balanced education can the problem of "school choice fever" be fundamentally solved, and the "shock" therapy of completely closing branch schools is not suitable for Zhengzhou. Zhengzhou should supervise these schools to carry out gradual reform, so that they can finally meet the requirements of "four independences" (independent legal person, independent financial accounting, independent personnel management, independent campus and school buildings, independent education and teaching), and can not close down.
At present, Zhengzhou has a branch school of 1 1 with nearly 20,000 students. In the compulsory education stage, all children should be guaranteed to go to school. If "one size fits all" is adopted now, students and teachers in these branch schools will have nowhere to be diverted.
In addition, the National Private Education Promotion Law still supports private capital to run schools. Therefore, as long as we don't "run schools around fees and run education around the economy", it should be possible to run private schools without occupying state resources. However, it can be predicted that with the comprehensive free compulsory education and the gradual balance of educational resources, the private school-running forces in the compulsory education stage are likely to be gradually eliminated by the market.
Compulsory education is free.
Urban and rural areas should be realized in stages.
This autumn, all rural primary and secondary school students in Zhengzhou will be exempted from tuition and miscellaneous fees. Can urban students enjoy the free policy soon after the implementation of the new compulsory education law?
"Free compulsory education should be realized in stages," Zhang Shucan said. According to the new Compulsory Education Law, free education starts in the west, followed by the middle, and the most developed east comes last. This shows that the phased realization is not due to financial pressure, but to prevent the "school-choosing fever" from further heating up and transforming it into "geothermal" and strategically solve the problem of regional resource differences.
In Zhengzhou, there are indeed differences between urban and rural school conditions at this stage. If both urban and rural areas provide free education in the compulsory education stage, a large number of rural students will inevitably flood into cities. However, if it is completed in stages, most rural students are more inclined to choose free local education, thus inhibiting the emergence of "geothermal choice". ■