With the epidemic becoming more and more loose, it is time for primary school students in every household to go to school. The school start time is different in many parts of the country, but it is probably ready or has already started. Recently, Lanzhou Education Bureau announced a series of measures for the reform of compulsory education, which attracted everyone's attention. In the reform proposal, Lanzhou Education Bureau believes that the Education Bureau should resolutely continue to implement the national 2-exemption 1 supplementary policy. For students with difficulties in going to school or families with financial difficulties, it is proposed to exempt tuition and fees, provide textbooks free of charge, subsidize living expenses, and cancel the policy of providing supplementary teaching materials free of charge for urban and rural compulsory education students. That is, if these primary school students can no longer enjoy the policy of free textbooks in compulsory education, their parents need to pay for teaching AIDS. Of course, in the process of purchasing textbooks, schools can't charge any fees, nor can they seek illegitimate interests from them. After canceling this fee, the financial department will

1. What are the benefits of this policy?

After the implementation of this policy, the state financial funds can be used in more scarce areas, and the cost of teaching materials will no longer be subsidized. Parents will hand over the cost to the school, and the effect of unified purchase by the school is the same. Only parents need to bear the cost, which can reduce the financial burden of the government to a certain extent. Government finance can use the saved expenses to invest more teaching resources. Of course, students from poor families can still enjoy national policies without worrying about going to school.

2. What's the difference between this year's policy and previous policies?

In the previous policy, in the process of allocating funds for primary school students in compulsory education every year, primary school students can be exempted from paying textbook fees, and the cost of learning textbook fees is borne by the government. This year, this policy has been reformed. The primary school students themselves pay the textbook fee to the school, and the government no longer bears it, canceling the supplementary fee for compulsory education.