Compulsory education has always been the top priority of China's educational reform and development. At the beginning of this century, China achieved the goal of popularizing nine-year compulsory education, and first solved the problem of "education" for school-age children and adolescents according to law. After compulsory education is fully popularized and free, the state clearly regards the balanced development of compulsory education as the top priority of compulsory education, and strives to achieve the goal of "good study" for all school-age children and adolescents.
Compulsory education is a basic public service for all school-age children and adolescents, and it is the legal responsibility of the government to provide basically balanced compulsory education. Every school-age child should enjoy equal opportunities to receive qualified and quality compulsory education. The nature of compulsory education determines that compulsory education must develop in a balanced way.
It must be noted that the task of promoting balanced development is more arduous, complicated and takes longer than the task of achieving popularization. At present, the imbalance between regions, between urban and rural areas and between schools is still outstanding. Promoting the balanced development of compulsory education in the region will be accompanied by the whole process of narrowing the differences in running schools and improving the overall quality of education.
Promoting the balanced development of compulsory education in urban and rural areas will gradually narrow the gap between urban and rural areas with the whole process of urban-rural integration development; Promoting the balanced development of compulsory education between regions will be accompanied by the whole process of solving the problem of regional economic and social imbalance and improving the education level in the central and western regions.
The three basic attributes of compulsory education in China are obligation, public welfare and unity.
1, public welfare
The so-called public welfare means that it is clearly stipulated that "tuition and miscellaneous fees are not charged". Public welfare and freedom are linked. For example, Article 2 of the revised Compulsory Education Law stipulates that the state implements a nine-year compulsory education system. Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. The implementation of compulsory education, free of tuition and fees. The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee the funds for compulsory education to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system.
Step 2 be consistent
Unity is always an idea. From beginning to end, the new law emphasizes the implementation of national unified compulsory education, including the formulation of unified teaching material setting standards, teaching standards, funding standards, construction standards, student public funding standards and so on. These contents related to unification are all reflected in the revision of laws in different forms.
3. Commanding
Coercion is also called coercion. It is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let school-age children and adolescents receive compulsory education. Whoever violates this obligation will be regulated by law. If parents don't send their students to school, they should bear the responsibility; Schools do not accept school-age children and adolescents to go to school, and schools should bear the responsibility; The government does not provide corresponding conditions, but it must also be regulated by law.