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Help poor high school students realize their dream of studying.
-On-the-spot report on student financial assistance in Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province
The effective implementation of high school students' financial aid has enabled students of all ethnic groups in Dali to enjoy the sunshine of fair education equally. The picture shows the ethnic students in Dali Ethnic Middle School. (data picture)
Dali in western Yunnan has beautiful scenery and is famous for its tourist attractions at home and abroad. However, due to various conditions, the number of local poor people is quite large, belonging to concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas.
In recent years, the state has vigorously popularized high school education, and local people are eager for their children to enter high school. However, because high school is not compulsory education, tuition fees have become an obstacle for some children from poor families to attend high school.
To this end, Dali has formulated a series of effective policies and measures, carried out multi-channel student assistance activities, initially formed a socialized student assistance pattern of "Party Committee leadership, government support, social participation, educational operation, and up-and-down linkage", improved the student assistance system of ordinary high schools, and became a booster for Dali students to realize their life dreams.
The financial system is very strong.
Judging from his schooling experience, He Xingcai is an out-and-out "lucky dog".
He Xingcai is a 20th13rd graduate of Nanjian Ethnic Middle School in Dali. After graduating from the third grade, he decided not to go to high school because of his poor family. The teacher of Nanjian County Ethnic Middle School found him and mobilized him to study in an ethnic middle school. His hands spread out: "I can't afford the tuition, I can't read."
The teacher of the national middle school smiled: "Since I am looking for you, I guarantee that you can attend high school for three years."
First, the school reduced his tuition and accommodation fees. Shortly thereafter, He Xingcai began to enjoy state grants, "Love the Future" grants from Project Hope, and funds for helping minors. In the third year of high school, the school won him a 6,000-yuan love grant from a company in Beijing to ensure his successful completion of his studies. Today, He Xingcai has started his college life in North China Electric Power University.
However, the teachers of Nanjian Ethnic Middle School don't agree with this statement. "There are too many such students. If everyone can enjoy this kind of funding, it is not called' lucky'! "
Nanjian county is a national poverty-stricken county. How much does it cost for students to attend high school for three years? Zhang Xuehai, president of the National Middle School, calculated an account for the reporter:
After three years and 30 months in school, the monthly living expenses of students are 350 yuan, totaling 10500 yuan; The tuition fee for three years is 2400 yuan, the accommodation fee for 420 yuan is 2400 yuan, and the transportation and miscellaneous expenses 1600 yuan. For three years in high school, each student will spend 17320 yuan. For many families in Nanjian County, the cost of going to school is unbearable.
In Dali prefecture, there are many such situations. If the government does not establish a subsidy system, it is really a distant dream for students from poor families to go to high school.
Faced with this situation, on June 5438+ 10, 2007, Dali established a leading group for student financial assistance to comprehensively lead and coordinate the student financial assistance work in counties, cities and schools at all levels, and both state and county governments established student financial assistance institutions. Every year, the financial aid policies for students from poor families are regularly published on the websites of the state government, the State Education Bureau and the local media, and a large number of publicity materials such as guidelines, procedures and conditions for handling state grants are distributed.
Under the leadership of the government, Dali senior high school funding system has been established rapidly, and the ability to win funding projects has been greatly enhanced. Since 20 10, the policy of subsidizing students from poor families in ordinary senior high schools has been implemented. Dali * * * subsidizes students 107899, and the amount of subsidy is 81630,000 yuan. There are 8,290 students in Quanzhou who have enjoyed tuition fee remission, with tuition fee remission of 4.96 million yuan. There are 1 1405 students who have won scholarships at school, and the reward amount is 2.86 million yuan; A total of 49 17 students received special hardship subsidies with an amount of 1.6 million yuan. In addition, the central lottery public welfare fund project, which was implemented in 2007, benefited 10049 high school students, with a total funding of12.623 million yuan.
Love and dreams drive society.
In addition to the funding system established by the government, Dali also actively contacted enterprises, mobilized social forces and advocated donations from all walks of life. According to statistics, from 20 10 to 20 13, Dali * * Ordinary High School received social donations of 125 10000 yuan to help more than one student with financial difficulties 10000.
In addition to high school students, people who have just finished the college entrance examination are also the key targets of the relevant departments. During the period after the college entrance examination every year, Liu Hong, director of Dali Education Bureau, always has some anxiety and anxiety in his eyes. What makes Liu Hong anxious is the financial aid for students from poor families who are about to go to college.
Born in a poor mountainous area, Liu Hong knows that it is not easy for students to go to school, and it is even harder to get into a university. He said, "What a pity to let them drop out of school because their families are poor! We strive to make every student with financial difficulties in the family have a college dream! " In order to widely mobilize social assistance, Liu Hong seized every opportunity to promote student financial assistance programs to enterprises. Driven by Liu Hong, the staff of the Education Bureau consciously participated in the student financial assistance work. A staff member said: "We usually take the initiative to contact enterprises and introduce them to the development and changes of the school and the learning situation of the funded students. This is the method we summed up. You can't go to others when you need money. "
Since 2008, Dali has launched the "Love Dreams" brand donation activity, giving financial aid ranging from 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan to students from poor families who were admitted to two or more universities in the college entrance examination that year. From 2008 to 20 13, state and county governments raised a total of 37.2 million yuan, of which donations from enterprises and individuals accounted for a large part. Since 2008, this fund has helped12,870 freshmen with financial difficulties to enter universities smoothly. In 2009, Dali once again started the student-origin credit loan business. In the past five years, Quanzhou * * * has accepted 46,239 applications for student-origin credit loans, and * * * has issued loans of 262.84 million yuan.
After years of running, Liu Hong has a nickname that everyone knows-"director of alms". Many business leaders joked with him: "What kind of director is entangled every year!"
"Education is a caring cause. As educators, we should have a broad love. As long as I work for one day, I will always be the director of Huayuan! " Liu Hong said.
"Hongzhi class" shines brilliantly
In Dali, some schools also give full play to their own advantages and actively seek social funds to support funding.
In August 2002, 40 "Hongzhi classes" were established in 20 provinces, one of which was in Dali Ethnic Middle School. With the good effect of "Hongzhi Class", since 2008, Dali has set up "Dali Hongzhi Class" in ethnic middle schools.
Since the two "Hongzhi classes" started, * * * has enrolled 1000 students in class 3. The students come from seven States (cities) such as Dali and Chuxiong in western Yunnan, including more than a dozen ethnic groups such as Han, Bai and Yi. "Hongzhi Class" students enjoy an annual living allowance of 3,000 yuan (from 2065,438+03, the funds are raised by the school itself, and the subsidy standard is raised from 2065,438+04 to 4,000 yuan), and the school is exempt from all tuition fees.
The opening of "Hongzhi class", especially the opening of "Dali Hongzhi class", has brought great pressure to the school funds that are not plentiful. Principal Ma Qin said: "Hongzhi classes are all students with family difficulties. Although there is a living allowance every year, in many cases, their study, living, medical care, pocket money and other expenses have to be borne by the school. Many poor students even need our help to solve the college entrance examination registration fee, college travel expenses, and even tuition and living expenses for the first year of college. "
To this end, in addition to financial allocation, the school also raises funds in various ways to ensure that a "Hong Zhisheng" will not drop out of school because of poverty. Since Hongzhi Class was founded 13 years ago, the school has invested 5148,000 yuan, which is mainly used for tuition exemption, financial aid for poor students, scholarships for further studies, and awards for further studies. Among them, the school has raised 2 million yuan by itself. Students from particularly poor families also enjoy special grants from the Hope Project and Intellectual Development Foundation. For every graduating student, the school has won donations for the "Dream of Love" project in Dali. After the college entrance examination every year, the school has awarded more than 200,000 yuan for excellence to college entrance examination students.
No worries, students in Hongzhi class concentrate on their studies and walk out of the mountains one by one to the outside world. Up to now, Hongzhi Class has successfully trained 700 graduates, and the admission rate of college entrance examination has reached 100% year after year. Today, the students of Hongzhi Class have covered 26 nationalities in 7 states (cities) in western Yunnan, and Dali Prefecture 12 counties (cities). Hongzhi class has become the brand of education in Dali, and it has become the dream holy land for many poor students with excellent academic performance to complete their high school studies. (Reporter Gao correspondent Wang Canxin)
Write a new chapter in Baizhou education with love
Liang Zhimin, Secretary of CPC Dali State Committee.
Dali, located in the west of central Yunnan Province, is the only Bai Autonomous Prefecture among the 30 autonomous prefectures in China. Dali is also an economically underdeveloped area, and the task of helping the poor and helping the wise is even more arduous.
In recent years, in order to fulfill the solemn promise of "not letting a student drop out of school because of family financial difficulties", the Dali State Party Committee and the state government have implemented the strategy of strengthening the country through education, implemented the policy of "two exemptions and one subsidy", improved the student financial aid system, and established various forms of financial aid systems such as awards, assistance, reduction, exemption, loans and donations, thus realizing the full coverage of students with family financial difficulties by the national education system, which is the largest in the history of Dali's education development. Statistics show that 500,000 students and 6.5438+0.5 million people benefit each year, accounting for 43% of the total population of the state.
In the future, Dali will further increase the investment in policies and funds, improve the working mechanism of student assistance, enrich the forms of poverty alleviation, raise the funding standards, expand the scope of student assistance, earnestly safeguard educational equity, make every child "excellent in character and learning", provide a fair "starting line" for every child, and write a new chapter in education in Baizhou with love.
China Education News 20 1 August 6, 41Edition.