Proposal to assign commune authorities to manage education for kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools

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COMMUNE AUTHORITIES MANAGE EDUCATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, AND KINDERGARTENS

In the document, the Ministry of Education and Training requested the People's Committees of localities to maintain the educational public service units; at the same time, transfer to the commune-level authorities the function of state management of education for kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools.

This is an implementation step according to Conclusion No. 137-KL/TW dated March 28, 2025 of the Politburo and Secretariat on the Project on rearranging and reorganizing administrative units at all levels and building a 2-level local government organization model.

Provincial People's Committees are responsible for directing specialized agencies to issue documents guiding the transfer of state management of education, currently undertaken by district level, to provincial specialized agencies and commune People's Committees when implementing the arrangement and reorganization of two-level local governments.

The Ministry of Education and Training also requested the provincial People's Committees to step up propaganda and dissemination of the Party, National Assembly, Government's guidelines and the Ministry's instructions in ensuring the quality and efficiency of public educational institutions when implementing the two-level local government model.

At the same time, it is necessary to seriously carry out inspection and examination work to promptly detect and correct difficulties, problems or violations (if any).

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IMPLEMENTS THE ARRANGEMENT, TRANSFER, AND SENDING OF TEACHERS

The Ministry of Education and Training requests the provincial People's Committee to direct the review and identification of current state management contents on education at the district level to adjust and transfer to the provincial level (Department of Education and Training) or the commune People's Committee for management; carry out administrative activities related to education to operate normally, smoothly, continuously, without interruption, without affecting the normal activities of society, people, and businesses.

State management contents in the field of education must be assigned to competent professional agencies to ensure the implementation of tasks related to deciding on job positions, financial norms, assigning staff and allocating budget for the education sector in the province.

Decentralization needs to be carried out strongly but without loosening management; ensuring that there is no omission, division or interruption of professional management contents and quality assurance conditions in the national education system.

The Ministry of Education and Training emphasized that state management of professional content, recruitment, arrangement, transfer, secondment and development of teaching staff should be assigned to the provincial professional agency (Department of Education and Training) to implement uniformly throughout the province. This is to ensure general regulation and timely handling of local teacher surplus and shortage among localities.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/xa-hoi/202504/de-nghi-giao-chinh-quyen-xa-quan-ly-giao-duc-doi-voi-cac-truong-mam-non-tieu-hoc-va-thcs-22708ce/