Increased compulsory education guarantee
The number of students who dropped out dropped from 600,000 to more than 6,000 a year
Beijing, June 19 (Reporter Zhao Yuna, Zhang Shuo, Ding Yachen) Sang Qingzhuoma, a primary school student in Shangduke Township Primary School, Yangtang County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, dropped out of school a year ago. The principal and Baocun cadres She went home and repeatedly persuaded her to return to school. After unremitting efforts, Sang Qingzhuoma finally returned to school. This semester, she not only ranked among the best, but was also elected as a study committee member. Sang Qingzhuoma said: "I want to cherish precious learning time!"
Guaranteed compulsory education is an important task in poverty alleviation and one of the bottom line goals of “two guarantees and three guarantees”. It is related to the effectiveness of poverty alleviation and the achievement of a comprehensive well-off society. The Ministry of Education focused on the core tasks of controlling dropouts, continued to carry out special actions to control dropouts, and improved the long-term mechanism of accurate dropouts. Local governments established joint control and joint guarantee responsibility systems to form a joint and decisive battle. As of June 14, the number of students who dropped out of the national compulsory education stage decreased from 600,000 at the time of the establishment of the school dropout control account in May 2019 to 6,781, a decrease of nearly 99%; 82,000 people were reduced to 433, a decrease of 99.5%.
52 uncapped counties are the main battlefield for achieving the goal of "compulsory education is guaranteed". The Ministry of Education takes "three districts and three states" as the decisive battlefield. Great tilt support, organization of elite forces to sort out problems, division of work packages, strong support, listing supervision. According to reports, members of the Party group of the Ministry of Education have directed 52 counties and one county to improve the work plan for dropout insurance, guide poor counties with large class problems to formulate work plans to eliminate large classes, and organize teacher public welfare training projects. At the same time, digital education resources will be directed to poverty-stricken counties, and primary and secondary schools in the developed regions of the east will be established with counterparts in poverty-stricken counties, and online training for special education teachers in poverty-stricken counties will be organized, with more than 15,000 live broadcasts.
"People's Daily" (June 20, 2020 version 01)