The change of flagpole primary school is a microcosm of Lianshui county's comprehensive promotion of improving the basic conditions for running schools with weak compulsory education. "The county's' thinning' work has started. It is estimated that by 20 18, 250 million yuan will be invested, which will completely improve the basic conditions for running schools with weak compulsory education." Lu Jianing, director of the Education Bureau of Lianshui County, said.
Based on the principle of "filling the shortcomings and standardizing the improvement of the level", Lianshui County has set up a leading group to comprehensively improve the basic conditions for running schools with weak compulsory education, and formulated a project plan to comprehensively improve the basic conditions for running schools with weak compulsory education, with infrastructure projects, upgrading of educational equipment, balanced development of education and construction of teachers as the focus of the "thinning" work. Up to now, Lianshui County has invested 84.68 million yuan in "thinning" funds, and the implementation project covers 65 schools.
Since the implementation of the "thinning" work, the Lianshui County Party Committee and the county government have held several special meetings to study and deploy the "thinning" work, and issued documents such as "Opinions on Deepening the Reform and Development of Education in the County" and "Implementation Opinions on Further Increasing Education Investment", requiring the finance, housing and construction departments to open up green channels and implement "zero" fees for all administrative fees within the county's jurisdiction; Business service charges will be halved "principle, implement the fee reduction policy, and fully support the" slimming "work.
In the new or expanded projects, Lianshui County has a good control over qualification access, establishment of rules and regulations, personnel training and project supervision. At present, there are 35 schools in the county that are building or rebuilding their buildings, with a construction area of 69,000 square meters. Lu Nan Primary School is a small village in Lianshui County with poor school conditions. According to Zhu Yongsheng, the principal of the school, a new teaching building of 1500 square meters will be put into use next spring, which will completely solve the dilemma of more than 570 teachers and students squeezing into the old teaching building.
In the "thinning" work, Lianshui County vigorously implemented the project of upgrading the equipment level of compulsory education schools, promoted the informationization of rural school education, and gradually upgraded the equipment level of schools from the provincial second-class standard to the provincial first-class standard. Lianshui County invested 7.04 million yuan to improve the equipment level of Dadong School and Yao Hong Experimental School 18 rural primary and secondary schools; This year, it invested 2.67 million yuan to equip 27 rural primary and secondary schools such as Ji Cheng School and Beiji Primary School with computers.
The "thinning" work in Lianshui County focuses not only on improving the basic conditions for running weak schools, but also on improving the management level of weak schools, and comprehensively promoting the balanced and healthy development of compulsory education from the aspects of hardware facilities, teacher allocation and connotation construction. At the same time, according to the principle of "strong schools with weak schools, famous schools with new schools, and urban schools with rural schools", the 12 regional alliance of compulsory education schools was established to actively promote the collectivization of compulsory education schools.
"It is also very important to strengthen the construction of teachers in weak schools." The relevant person in charge of Lianshui County said that since the start of the "thin" work, the county has openly recruited teachers 109, of which 84 were assigned to weak schools in rural areas. Teachers who teach in weak schools are given priority in job evaluation and welfare treatment. This autumn semester, 78 famous teachers and backbone teachers went to weak schools to teach and help, and 382 rural school teachers went to urban schools for temporary training and exchange study, which promoted the balance of teachers between urban and rural areas and between schools. (Reporter Zhao Jianchun correspondent Cheng Wei Zhidong)