Proposing commune authorities to manage kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools

The Ministry of Education and Training proposes that primary schools be managed by commune-level authorities - Photo: VINH HA

Accordingly, the Ministry of Education and Training proposed that localities maintain educational public service units and transfer to commune-level authorities the function of state management of education for secondary schools, primary schools, and kindergartens according to Conclusion No. 137-KL/TW dated March 28, 2025 of the Politburo and the Secretariat on the project to rearrange and reorganize administrative units at all levels and build a 2-level local government organization model.

The provincial People's Committee is responsible for directing specialized agencies to issue documents guiding the content of state management of education managed by the district level and transfer them to specialized agencies at the provincial level and the commune People's Committee when implementing the arrangement and reorganization of two-level local governments.

This must ensure that administrative activities related to education operate normally, smoothly, continuously, without interruption, and without affecting the normal activities of society, people, and businesses.

Teacher Mobilization: Avoiding Local Teacher Excess and Shortage

Regarding the arrangement, mobilization, and assignment of teaching staff when implementing the two-level local government organization model, the Ministry of Education and Training recommends that localities ensure strong decentralization but not loosen, omit, or interrupt professional management of education.

At the same time, unify the implementation of state management of education for the sector's expertise. The recruitment, arrangement, transfer, secondment, and development of the teaching staff by the provincial professional agency, the Department of Education and Training, must be implemented uniformly throughout the province.

Localities must pay attention to handling the situation of local teacher shortages.

Do not leave gaps in key positions

In the above document, the Ministry of Education and Training also requested the provincial People's Committees to pay attention to not allowing gaps, overlaps, or dispersion in key areas such as professional guidance, program content, staff management, finance, school facilities, inspection, and examination...

When implementing decentralization of state management of education, it is necessary to ensure consistency with the orientation of the laws that the Government is preparing to submit to the National Assembly for approval (Law on Teachers, Law on Education amended and supplemented, Law on Local Government amended, Law on Vocational Education amended...) to effectively implement state management of specialized professional activities of the education sector.

The Ministry of Education and Training recommends that the provincial People's Committee assign the focal point for state management of the education sector to the level that has sufficient resources in terms of facilities, finance, and human resources to ensure the maintenance and development of the education career and clearly distinguish between professional tasks (directly assigned to the Department of Education and Training ) and administrative and local tasks (directly assigned to the commune-level People's Committee).

At the same time, decentralization is linked to inspection and supervision mechanisms to improve the quality and effectiveness of education in the best local conditions.

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