Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution and the actual situation in China in order to develop basic education and promote the construction of socialist material and spiritual civilization.
Article 2 The State implements nine-year compulsory education. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall determine the steps for the implementation of compulsory education in accordance with the economic and cultural development of their respective regions.
Article 3 Compulsory education must carry out the State's education policy, strive to improve the quality of education, so that children and young people in moral, intellectual and physical all-round development, in order to improve the quality of the whole nation, and to cultivate idealistic, ethical, cultured and disciplined socialist construction personnel to lay the foundation.
Article 4 The State, society, schools and families shall, in accordance with law, safeguard the right of school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education.
Article 5 All children who have reached the age of six, regardless of gender, ethnicity or race, shall be enrolled in school to receive compulsory education for a specified number of years. Where conditions are not favorable, enrollment may be delayed until the age of seven.
Article 6: Schools shall promote the use of nationally recognized Putonghua. Schools enrolling mainly ethnic minority students may teach in the languages and scripts commonly used by ethnic minorities.
Article 7 Compulsory education can be divided into two stages: primary education and lower secondary education. Primary secondary education shall be popularized on the basis of universal primary education. The academic system of primary education and lower secondary education shall be formulated by the competent department of education under the State Council.
Article 8 The cause of compulsory education, under the leadership of the State Council, the implementation of local responsibility, management at different levels. The competent department of education under the State Council shall, in accordance with the needs of socialist modernization and the physical and mental development of children and adolescents, determine the teaching system, teaching content and curriculum of compulsory education, and review and revise textbooks.
Article 9 The local people's governments at all levels shall rationally set up elementary school and junior secondary schools, so that children and teenagers can attend schools nearby. Local people's governments at all levels for the blind, deaf-mute and mentally retarded children and teenagers to organize special education schools (classes). The State encourages enterprises, institutions and other social forces to organize, under the unified management of the local people's governments and in accordance with the basic requirements laid down by the State, the various types of schools provided for in this Law. Urban and rural construction and development plans must include corresponding compulsory education facilities.
Article 10 The State shall exempt tuition fees for students receiving compulsory education. The State establishes scholarships to help poor students attend school.
Article 11: Parents or other guardians must ensure that their children or wards of school age are enrolled in school on time and receive compulsory education for a specified number of years. If a school-age child or juvenile needs to be deferred or exempted from schooling due to illness or special circumstances, the child's or juvenile's parents or other guardians shall apply for approval by the local people's government. Any organization or individual is prohibited from recruiting school-age children and adolescents who should receive compulsory education for employment.
Article 12 The State Council and the local people's governments at all levels shall be responsible for raising and ensuring the necessary funds and capital investment for the implementation of compulsory education. The proportion of increase in the State's financial allocations for compulsory education shall be higher than the proportion of increase in the recurrent financial revenue, and the cost of education, averaged over the number of pupils attending school, shall be increased gradually. Local people's governments at all levels, in accordance with the provisions of the State Council, collect surcharges on education fees in both urban and rural areas, which are used primarily for the implementation of compulsory education. The State subsidizes funding for the implementation of compulsory education in economically difficult areas. The State encourages all kinds of social forces as well as individuals to make voluntary contributions to education. The State provides assistance to ethnic minority areas in the implementation of compulsory education in terms of teachers' qualifications and financial resources.
Article 13 The State shall take measures to strengthen and develop teacher education, accelerate the training of teachers, and systematically realize that elementary school teachers shall have the qualifications of graduates of secondary teacher training colleges and above, and that teachers of junior secondary schools shall have the qualifications of graduates of colleges of higher teacher training colleges and above. The State has established a system of teacher-qualification examinations, and qualification certificates are issued to qualified teachers. Graduates of teacher training colleges must work in education in accordance with regulations. The State encourages teachers to engage in education on a long-term basis.
Article 14 The whole society shall respect teachers. The State shall safeguard the lawful rights and interests of teachers, take measures to raise their social status, improve their material treatment, and reward outstanding educators. Teachers shall love the cause of socialist education, strive to improve their ideological, cultural and business levels, love and care for students, and be loyal to their duties.
Article 15 Local people's governments at all levels must create conditions for school-age children and teenagers to enroll in compulsory education. Except for illness or special circumstances, approved by the local people's government, school-age children and adolescents do not enroll in compulsory education, the local people's government shall criticize and educate their parents or other guardians, and take effective measures to order their children or wards to enroll in school. Recruitment of school-age children and adolescents employment organizations or individuals, by the local people's government to give criticism and education, and ordered to stop recruiting; the circumstances are serious, may also impose a fine, ordered to stop business or revocation of business licenses.
Article 16 No organization or individual shall appropriate, withhold or misappropriate funds for compulsory education, disturb the teaching order, or appropriate or destroy school premises, houses and equipment. It is forbidden to insult or beat teachers or to inflict corporal punishment on students. Religion may not be utilized for activities that impede the implementation of compulsory education. Violation of the provisions of the first paragraph and the second paragraph, depending on the circumstances, were given administrative sanctions, administrative penalties; caused damage, ordered to compensate for the damage; the circumstances are serious constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility.
Article 17 The competent departments of the State Council in charge of education shall formulate implementing rules in accordance with this Law and report them to the State Council for approval before they come into force. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central People's Congress Standing Committee may, in accordance with this Law, in conjunction with the actual situation in the region, formulate specific implementation measures.
Article 18 This Law shall come into force on July 1, 1986.
This new Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China came into effect on September 1, 2006
Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China
(Adopted by the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People's Congress on April 12, 1986Adopted by the Twenty-second Session of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress on June 29, 2006 Revised)
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 In order to safeguard the right of school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education, to ensure the implementation of compulsory education, and to improve the quality of the entire nation, this Law is formulated in accordance with the Constitution and the Education Law.
Article 2 The State implements a nine-year compulsory education system.
Compulsory education is the state unified implementation of all school-age children and adolescents must accept education, is the state must be guaranteed public welfare undertakings.
Compulsory education is free of tuition and miscellaneous fees.
The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee funding for compulsory education and to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system.
Article 3 compulsory education must carry out the State's education policy, the implementation of quality education, improve the quality of education, so that school-age children and adolescents in moral, intellectual, physical and other aspects of the all-round development, in order to cultivate idealistic, ethical, cultured and disciplined socialist builders and successors to lay the foundation.
Article 4 All school-age children and adolescents of Chinese people's **** and nationality, regardless of gender, nationality, race, family property status, religious beliefs, etc., shall enjoy equal rights to receive compulsory education in accordance with the law, and fulfill the obligation to receive compulsory education.
Article 5 The people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall fulfill the duties stipulated in this Law and guarantee the right of school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education.
Parents or other legal guardians of school-age children and adolescents shall, in accordance with the law, ensure that they enroll in school on time to receive and complete compulsory education.
Schools implementing compulsory education in accordance with the law shall complete their educational tasks and ensure the quality of education in accordance with the prescribed standards.
Social organizations and individuals shall create a good environment for school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education.
Article 6 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall rationally allocate educational resources, promote the balanced development of compulsory education, improve the operating conditions of weak schools, and take measures to ensure that compulsory education is implemented in rural areas and ethnic areas, and to ensure that school-age children and adolescents from economically disadvantaged families and with disabilities receive compulsory education.
The State organizes and encourages economically developed regions to support economically less developed regions to implement compulsory education.
Article 7 of the State Council to implement compulsory education, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government of the overall planning and implementation of people's governments at the county level of the main management system.
People's governments at or above the county level, the administrative department of education is specifically responsible for the implementation of compulsory education; people's governments at or above the county level, other relevant departments within their respective areas of responsibility for the implementation of compulsory education.
Article 8 of the people's government education supervisory bodies on the implementation of laws and regulations on compulsory education, the quality of education and teaching, as well as the status of balanced development of compulsory education supervision, supervision reports to the public.
Article IX any social organization or individual has the right to violate this law to the relevant state organs to report or complain.
The occurrence of major violations of this Law, hindering the implementation of compulsory education, resulting in a major social impact, the people's government or the people's government responsible for leading the people's education administrative department shall take the blame and resign.
Article 10 of the implementation of compulsory education to make outstanding contributions to social organizations and individuals, people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments in accordance with the relevant provisions of the commendation, reward.
Chapter II Students
Article 11 Where a child reaches the age of six, his parents or other legal guardians shall send him to school to receive and complete compulsory education; children in areas where conditions are not favorable can be delayed until the age of seven.
If a child or teenager of school age needs to defer enrollment or suspend schooling due to his or her physical condition, his or her parents or other legal guardians shall apply for approval by the local township people's government or by the educational administrative department of the people's government at the county level.
Article 12 of the school-age children and adolescents are exempted from the examination. Local people's governments at all levels shall ensure that school-age children and adolescents are enrolled in schools close to their place of domicile.
Parents or other legal guardians working or living in non-family residence of school-age children and adolescents, in their parents or other legal guardians work or live in the place of compulsory education, the local people's government shall provide equal conditions for them to receive compulsory education. Specific measures shall be stipulated by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
The education administrative departments of the people's governments at the county level shall ensure that children of military personnel in their administrative areas receive compulsory education.
Article 13 of the people's governments at the county level administrative departments of education and township people's governments to organize and supervise school-age children and teenagers to enroll in school, to help resolve the difficulties of school-age children and teenagers to receive compulsory education, and to take measures to prevent school-age children and teenagers from dropping out of school.
Residents' committees and villagers' committees assist the government in its work and urge school-age children and adolescents to attend school.
Article 14 prohibits employers from recruiting school-age children and adolescents who should receive compulsory education.
According to the relevant provisions of the state approved by the recruitment of school-age children and adolescents for arts, sports and other professional training of social organizations, shall ensure that the recruitment of school-age children and adolescents to receive compulsory education; the implementation of compulsory education on their own, shall be approved by the people's governments at the county level of the administrative department of education.
Chapter III School
Article 15 of the local people's governments at or above the county level, according to the administrative region of the number of school-age children and teenagers living in the number and distribution of factors, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State, the development and adjustment of the school set up planning. New residential areas need to set up schools, should be synchronized with the construction of residential areas.
Article 16 of the school construction, should be consistent with the state standards, to adapt to the needs of education and teaching; should be consistent with the state requirements for site selection and construction standards, to ensure the safety of students and staff.
Article 17 The people's governments at the county level according to the need to set up boarding schools, to ensure that children and teenagers of school age living in dispersed enroll in compulsory education.
Article 18 of the State Council administrative departments of education and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, according to the need to set up in economically developed areas to receive minority-age children and teenagers in schools (classes).
Article 19 of the local people's governments at or above the county level, according to the need to set up the corresponding implementation of special education schools (classes), visual disabilities, hearing and speech disabilities and intellectual disabilities of school-age children and teenagers to implement compulsory education. Special education schools (classes) should have places and facilities that are adapted to the learning, rehabilitation and living characteristics of children and teenagers with disabilities.
Ordinary schools should accept children and teenagers of school age with disabilities who have the ability to receive general education to study with their classes, and provide assistance for their learning and rehabilitation.
Article 20 of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the needs, set up special schools for the implementation of compulsory education for school-age juveniles who have serious delinquent behaviors as stipulated in the Law on the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency.
Article 21 of the juvenile delinquents who have not completed compulsory education and minors who have been subjected to compulsory education measures shall be subjected to compulsory education, and the necessary funds shall be guaranteed by the people's governments.
Article 22 of the people's governments at or above the county level and their administrative departments of education shall promote the balanced development of schools, narrow the gap between schools in terms of operating conditions, and shall not divide schools into key schools and non-key schools. Schools shall not be divided into key classes and non-key classes.
The people's governments at or above the county level and their administrative departments of education shall not change the nature of public schools in any name or in disguise.
Article 23 of the people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments in accordance with the law to maintain order in the vicinity of the school, to protect the legitimate rights and interests of students, teachers, schools, and to provide security for the school.
Article 24 The school shall establish and improve the safety system and emergency mechanism, safety education for students, strengthen management, timely elimination of hidden dangers, prevent accidents.
Local people's governments at or above the county level regularly inspect the safety of school buildings; the need for repair and renovation, timely repair and renovation.
Schools shall not employ people who have been deprived of their political rights by law for intentional crimes or who are otherwise unfit to engage in compulsory education as staff.
Article 25 schools shall not charge fees in violation of state regulations, and shall not seek to gain benefits by selling or disguisedly selling goods and services to students.
Article 26 schools implement the principal responsibility system. The principal shall meet the conditions of service prescribed by the state. The principal by the people's government at the county level of the education administration department appointed in accordance with the law.
Article 27 of the violation of the school management system of students, the school shall be criticized and educated, shall not be expelled.
Chapter IV Teachers
Article 28 Teachers enjoy the rights and fulfill the obligations prescribed by law, should be a teacher, loyal to the people's cause of education.
The whole society shall respect teachers.
Article 29 Teachers shall treat students equally in education and teaching, pay attention to their individual differences, teach them according to their abilities, and promote their full development.
Teachers shall respect the personality of students, shall not discriminate against students, shall not implement corporal punishment, disguised corporal punishment or other insults to the dignity of the students, shall not violate the legitimate rights and interests of students.
Article 30 Teachers shall obtain the qualifications of teachers prescribed by the state.
The state establishes a unified system of teaching positions in compulsory education. Teacher positions are divided into primary positions, intermediate positions and senior positions.
Article 31 of the people's governments at all levels to ensure that teachers' salaries, benefits and social insurance entitlements, and improve the working and living conditions of teachers; improve the mechanism for guaranteeing the salaries and funds of rural teachers.
The average salary level of teachers should not be lower than the average salary level of local civil servants.
Special education teachers are entitled to special post subsidy allowances. Teachers working in ethnic areas and remote and impoverished areas shall be entitled to allowances for hardship and poverty.
Article 32 The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen teacher training and take measures to develop teacher education.
The administrative departments of education of the people's governments at the county level shall equilibrate the allocation of school teachers in the administrative area, organize the training and mobility of principals and teachers, and strengthen the construction of weak schools.
Article 33 The State Council and local people's governments at all levels to encourage and support urban school teachers and graduates of higher education to rural areas and ethnic areas to engage in compulsory education.
The State encourages graduates of institutions of higher learning to teach in rural areas and ethnic areas where there is a shortage of teachers on a volunteer basis. The education administrative departments of the people's governments at the county level shall recognize their teaching qualifications in accordance with the law, and their teaching time shall be counted as years of service.
Chapter V Education and Teaching
Article 34 of the education and teaching work should be in line with the laws of education and the physical and mental development of students, for all students, teaching and educating people, moral education, intellectual education, physical education, aesthetic education, etc. Organic unity of the educational and teaching activities, focusing on cultivating the system of students' ability to think independently, innovation and practice, and to promote the all-round development of students.
Article 35 of the State Council administrative department of education, according to the state of physical and mental development of school-age children and adolescents and the actual situation, to determine the teaching system, education and teaching content and curriculum, to reform the examination system, and to improve the enrollment methods of the senior secondary schools, and promote the implementation of quality education.
Schools and teachers carry out educational and teaching activities in accordance with the determined educational and teaching content and curriculum, and ensure that the basic quality requirements set by the State are met.
The State encourages schools and teachers to adopt heuristic education and other educational teaching methods to improve the quality of education and teaching.
Article 36 of the school shall give priority to moral education, moral education in education and teaching, to carry out social practice activities appropriate to the age of the students, the formation of schools, families, and the community to cooperate with the ideological and moral education system, and to promote the formation of students to develop good ideological and moral character and behavioral habits.
Article 37 of the school shall ensure that students' extracurricular activities time, organize and carry out cultural and recreational extracurricular activities. Social public **** cultural and sports facilities should facilitate the school to carry out extracurricular activities.
Article 38 of the textbooks prepared in accordance with the national education policy and curriculum standards, the content of the efforts to streamline, select the necessary basic knowledge, basic skills, economical and practical, to ensure quality.
Staff of state organs and textbook reviewers shall not participate in or disguised participation in the preparation of textbooks.
Article 39 of the state to implement the textbook validation. The methods of textbook validation shall be prescribed by the education administrative department of the State Council.
Textbooks that have not been validated shall not be published or used.
Article 40 of the State Council by the State Council administrative department of price, in conjunction with the publication of the administrative department in accordance with the principle of micro-profit to determine the benchmark price. Provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central People's Government price administrative departments in conjunction with the publishing administration to determine the retail price in accordance with the benchmark price.
Article 41 of the State encourages the recycling of textbooks.
Chapter VI financial security
Article 42 of the State compulsory education fully into the scope of financial security, compulsory education funds by the State Council and the local people's governments at all levels in accordance with the provisions of this Law shall be guaranteed.
The State Council and local people's governments at all levels shall include compulsory education funding in their budgets, and shall, in accordance with the standards for the establishment of teaching staff, the standards for their salaries and the standards for school construction, and the standards for the amount of public funds per pupil, allocate funds for compulsory education in full and in a timely manner, to ensure that the schools function normally and the safety of the school buildings, and to ensure that the salaries of the teaching staff are paid out in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
The State Council and local people's governments at all levels shall increase the proportion of financial allocations for the implementation of compulsory education higher than the proportion of growth in fiscal recurrent revenue, and shall ensure that the cost of compulsory education, averaged according to the number of students enrolled in the school, increases gradually, as well as ensuring that the salaries of teaching and administrative staff and the per capita public funds for students increase gradually.
Article 43 of the school's basic standard of public funds per student by the State Council, the financial sector in conjunction with the education sector to develop and adjusted in accordance with economic and social development. Develop, adjust the basic standard of public funds per student, should meet the basic needs of education and teaching.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government can, according to the actual situation in the administrative region, the development of school public funds per student standards not lower than the national standard.
Special education schools (classes) should be higher than the standard of public funds per student in ordinary schools.
Article 44 of the compulsory education funding for the implementation of the State Council and local people's governments at all levels in accordance with their responsibilities *** with the burden of the people's governments of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government is responsible for the overall implementation of the system. Compulsory education in rural areas, the people's governments at all levels in accordance with the provisions of the State Council to share the project, according to the proportion.
People's governments at all levels provide free textbooks and subsidies for boarders' living expenses to school-age children and teenagers from economically disadvantaged families.
The State Council shall prescribe the specific measures for guaranteeing the funding of compulsory education.
Article 45 of the local people's governments at all levels in the financial budget will be compulsory education funds separate.
The people's governments at the county level to prepare the budget, in addition to schools in rural areas and weak schools, should be balanced arrangement of compulsory education funding.
Article 46 of the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government to standardize the financial transfer system, increase the scale of general transfers and standardize special transfers for compulsory education, to support and guide the local people's governments at all levels to increase investment in compulsory education. Local people's governments at all levels to ensure that the higher people's government transfer funds for compulsory education in accordance with the provisions of compulsory education.
Article 47 The State Council and local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to actual needs, set up special funds to support the implementation of compulsory education in rural areas and ethnic areas.
Article 48 The state encourages social organizations and individuals to donate to compulsory education, and encourages the establishment of compulsory education funds in accordance with the provisions of the relevant state foundation management.
Article 49 Compulsory education funds are used for compulsory education in strict accordance with the provisions of the budget; no organization or individual may misappropriate or divert funds for compulsory education, or illegally charge or apportion fees to schools.
Article 50 The people's governments at or above the county level to establish and improve the audit supervision of compulsory education funds and statistical bulletin system.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 51 The relevant departments of the State Council and the local people's governments at all levels violate the provisions of Chapter VI of this Law, and fail to fulfill their responsibilities to ensure the funding of compulsory education, the State Council or the higher level of local people's government ordered to make corrections within a certain period of time; if the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible for the competent personnel and other directly responsible personnel shall be given administrative sanctions according to law.
Article 52 of the local people's governments at or above the county level in one of the following cases, the people's government at a higher level shall order rectification within a certain period of time; if the circumstances are serious, the persons in charge and other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to the law:
(a) failing to formulate and adjust the school setup plan in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state;
(b) school construction does not (b) School construction does not comply with the state standards for school operation, site selection requirements and construction standards;
(c) Failure to regularly inspect the safety of school buildings and timely repair and renovation;
(d) Failure to arrange for a balanced funding of compulsory education in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
Article 53 The people's governments at or above the county level or their educational administrative departments shall order the people's governments at the higher level or their educational administrative departments to make corrections within a certain period of time and notify them of the criticisms; and if the circumstances are serious, the persons in charge and other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to the law:
(1) dividing the schools into key schools and non-key schools;
(ii) change or disguise the nature of public schools.
The education administrative departments of the people's governments at the county level or the people's governments of the townships did not take measures to organize school-age children and adolescents to enroll in school or to prevent dropouts, in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be held legally responsible.
Article 54 of the following circumstances, the higher people's government or the higher people's government of the administrative departments of education, finance, price administration and auditing authorities in accordance with the division of responsibilities and ordered to make corrections within a specified period of time; if the circumstances are serious, the person in charge of the directly responsible person and other persons directly responsible for the punishment given in accordance with the law:
(a) misappropriation, misappropriation of funds for compulsory education;
(ii) Illegally charging or amortizing fees to schools.
Article 55 Schools or teachers who violate the provisions of the Education Law and the Teachers' Law in the work of compulsory education shall be punished in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Education Law and the Teachers' Law.
Article 56 schools in violation of state regulations to collect fees, by the people's governments at the county level education administrative departments ordered to return the fees charged; directly responsible for the competent personnel and other directly responsible personnel shall be given sanctions according to law.
Schools to students to sell or disguise the sale of goods, services and other ways to seek benefits, by the people's governments at the county level of the administrative department of education to give a notice of criticism; there is illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; on the directly responsible for the supervisor and other directly responsible personnel shall be given sanctions.
The staff of state organs and textbook reviewers involved in or disguised participation in the preparation of textbooks, by the people's governments at or above the county level or their administrative departments of education in accordance with the responsibilities and powers of the people's government shall order rectification within a specified period of time, and shall be given administrative sanctions in accordance with the law; and if there is any illegal income, confiscate the illegal income.
Article 57 of the school has one of the following circumstances, the people's governments at the county level of the administrative departments of education shall order a period of time to make corrections; the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible for the competent personnel and other directly responsible personnel shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law:
(a) refused to accept the ability to receive general education of children and adolescents with disabilities of the age of the class with the school;
(b) divided into focus classes and non-focus classes;
(c) the establishment of a focus class and non-focus class;
(d) the establishment of a focus class and non-focus class (c) Expelling students in violation of the provisions of this Law;
(d) Choosing unvalidated textbooks.
Article 58 If the parents or other legal guardians of school-age children or adolescents fail to send school-age children or adolescents to school to receive compulsory education in accordance with the provisions of this Law without justifiable reasons, the people's government of the local township or the people's government at the county level shall give them criticism and education and order them to make corrections within a certain period of time.
Article 59 of the following circumstances, in accordance with relevant laws and administrative regulations shall be punished:
(a) coercion or enticement of school-age children and adolescents should be subject to compulsory education to fail to attend school, drop out of school;
(b) unlawful recruitment of school-age children and adolescents should be subject to compulsory education;
(c) publication of textbooks that have not been validated in accordance with the law. (c) Publishing textbooks that have not been validated in accordance with the law.
Article 60 Violation of the provisions of this Law constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 61 of the compulsory education of school-age children and adolescents are not charged miscellaneous fees for the implementation of the steps prescribed by the State Council.
Article 62 The implementation of compulsory education in private schools organized by social organizations or individuals in accordance with the law, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education; where the Law on the Promotion of Private Education does not provide, this Law shall apply.
Article 63 This Law shall come into force on September 1, 2006 .
The main features of the new Compulsory Education Law
What impressed me most about the revision of the Compulsory Education Law is its democratic decision-making process and the extensive participation of all sectors of society. I have participated in many seminars organized by the National People's Congress, the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, and the Ministry of Education, and this practice of listening to a wide range of opinions from all walks of life during the legislative process is rare, and we should summarize our experience in this regard for future legislative practice.
Secondly, I think the new law emphasizes more on the concept of fairness and balance in education, and attention has been paid to the education of disadvantaged groups, including the children of migrant populations, children with disabilities, and juvenile delinquents. From the beginning to the end of the new law, the concept of fairness in education is very obvious and clear.
Not only that, but the new law also proposes specific measures to equalize education, such as Article 53, which stipulates that appropriate penalties shall be imposed for the division of schools into priority and non-priority schools, and for changing or disguising the nature of public schools. Regardless of the specific design of these mechanisms, at least the guiding spirit of the law is clear, and this is an improvement that deserves high recognition.
Third, the accountability mechanism of the government is very clear and explicit, especially in the mechanism of guaranteeing the funding of compulsory education, there are very clear provisions on which level of government should be responsible for what kind of responsibility. I think this is also one of the features of the new law.