Control Yuan: Quasi-Public Kindergartens Terminated for Severe Violations Should Have Better Information Disclosure

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Taiwan's Control Yuan urged the Ministry of Education to review its quasi-public kindergarten policy, noting a failure to meet original goals and a need for better transparency regarding severe violations and educator conditions.

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Taiwan's Control Yuan urged the Ministry of Education to review its quasi-public kindergarten policy, noting a failure to meet original goals and a need for better transparency regarding severe violations and educator conditions.

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Central News Agency (CNA Reporter Gao Hua-qian, Taipei, 22nd) The Control Yuan stated that the Ministry of Education's kindergarten mechanism for the declining birthrate countermeasure failed to meet the policy goal of "primarily establishing public kindergartens, supplemented by a quasi-public mechanism." The MOE should review and improve it. Furthermore, for quasi-public kindergartens whose contracts are terminated by the government due to severe violations, a sound mechanism for external information disclosure should be established. Control Yuan member Ji Hui-rong stated today through a press release that since the MOE implemented the "Expanded Public Preschool Educare Plan" in April 2017 and the declining birthrate countermeasure plan in 2018, it has adopted a parallel mechanism of adding public kindergartens and contracting private ones to become quasi-public kindergartens. Ji said that although the MOE's approved budget for expanding public educare services has risen year by year, since the trial of the quasi-public mechanism in 2018 up to 2024, the actual enrollment rate of quasi-public kindergartens has drastically increased from 4.1% to 34.8%, while public kindergartens have remained at around 30%. Moreover, in the 2024 academic year, there was a decrease in public kindergartens and even insufficient enrollment, which hardly fits the MOE's policy goal of "primarily establishing public kindergartens, supplemented by a quasi-public mechanism." Ji also pointed out that while the MOE has assisted public kindergartens in providing extended care and temporary care services, it has failed to meet the care needs of parents. In practice, there are still inconsistent open hours for extended care, a lack of complete extended care services during winter and summer vacations, and subsidies for personnel failing to cover the administrative costs required for extended care. These all require the MOE to regularly review the implementation by local governments. Ji stated th

Control Yuan: Quasi-Public Kindergartens Terminated for Severe Violations Should Have Better Information Disclosure

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