Recently, some deep-rooted families or non-deep-rooted families with residence permits in private primary and secondary schools in Shenzhen began to apply for 20 18 degree subsidies. As early as 20 12, Shenzhen began to give degree subsidies to students who meet the conditions of free compulsory education in this city to attend private schools. In 20 17, the subsidy standard was raised to a maximum of 7,000 yuan per student in primary school and 9,000 yuan per student in junior high school.

Compulsory education is the basic public service of the city, and it costs money to provide it. Previously, local governments used household registration as an identification tool to provide services only for school-age children registered in this city. After the cross-regional migration of labor force, a large number of non-registered people become permanent residents in cities, so how to provide compulsory education for migrant children (also known as migrant children) becomes a problem.

Shanghai is the first big city in China to start relevant practice. In 2008, it launched a three-year action plan, which greatly lowered the threshold for children of migrant workers to receive compulsory education in Shanghai. It used to be an example for domestic cities to solve the problem of migrant workers' children receiving compulsory education. Because the capacity of traditional public schools is designed according to the registered population, and the children of migrant workers are accepted to study in Shanghai in the short term, public schools can not accommodate new students for the time being. Shanghai buys degrees from private primary and secondary schools to provide them to the children of migrant workers, and the subsidy for each degree is gradually increased to 5,000 yuan, currently 6,000 yuan.

As an immigrant city, Shenzhen's registered population accounts for far less than that of Shanghai, and the capacity of public primary schools is even smaller. Compared with Shanghai, the proportion of children of migrant workers attending private primary schools is higher. According to the report on the education development of children of floating population in China (20 16), in 20 15 years, there were 785,800 children of floating population in the stage of compulsory education in Shenzhen, accounting for 69.54% of all students, of which only 36.29% were enrolled in public schools, accounting for 466./kloc-0.

Although there are high-quality schools in private primary and secondary schools, the overall education quality of private primary and secondary schools is far from that of public primary and secondary schools. The core reason lies in the gap of per capita education funds, and one of the important sources of per capita education funds gap is the gap of government financial input.

Taking 20 15 as an example, the total income of ordinary primary schools (mainly public primary schools) directly managed by local education departments in China was 933.2 billion, of which 925 billion came from finance (including public finance and government funds), accounting for 99 13% of the total income. Converted, the financial input of each student is close to 1. The total income of private ordinary primary school education funds is 45.65 billion, only 8.55 billion comes from finance, accounting for 18.72%, and the per capita education funds are only 6,400 yuan, only 60% of public primary schools, of which the financial input of each student is only 1 197 yuan.

The government's purchase of degrees from private schools to meet the compulsory education needs of school-age children has two advantages: first, private education can meet the needs of migrant children to receive compulsory education in time when public education is limited by factors such as establishment and cannot increase supply quickly; Second, government purchase may reduce the family's tuition expenditure, but it will increase the scale of per capita education expenditure, make up the gap between private and public education expenditure, and then promote education equalization.

In addition, the policy can also promote competition among private schools, thus improving the quality of education. For example, compared with Shanghai, this policy in Shenzhen is closer to the education voucher system, and the education department rarely interferes with families' choice of private schools. When the family and the school of their choice are in the catalogue at the same time, the family can get subsidies. Private schools in the catalogue are bound to compete for this, thus improving the quality of education, achieving the same quality of education as public schools with less funds, and further promoting the efficiency of public schools. This model is worth learning from other cities.