Jungnang-gu Accelerates Efforts to Create a Prestigious Educational City Through Public-Private-Academic Collaboration

Formation and Launch of the Education Development Committee Comprising Experts, Parents, and Education Officials to Fully Implement the Prestigious Education City... Sharing Diverse Opinions for Improving Educational Environment and Advancing Education Policies

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Public, private, and academic sectors have come together for the educational development of Jungnang-gu (Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi).

On the 3rd, Jungnang-gu announced that it launched the Jungnang-gu Education Development Committee, composed of about 20 members including Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi, the Superintendent of Seoul Eastern Education Support Office, members of the National Assembly, city and district council members, experts, and parent associations, embarking on the creation of Jungnang as a prestigious educational city.

The newly established Education Development Committee aims to significantly contribute to the educational advancement of Jungnang-gu by providing an optimal educational environment tailored to the district’s conditions through sharing diverse information from various fields, enabling students to focus on their studies in a comfortable and safe environment.

Additionally, the district plans to build an educational development governance system centered on the Education Development Committee, linking with school principals’ advisory groups, the Jungnang-gu elementary, middle, and high school parent presidents’ association, school operation committees, the Innovative Education District Operation Committee, and community education organizations and institutions, with the determination to provide the highest level of educational environment practically needed on the ground.

So far, the district has carried out various projects such as establishing the Bang Jeong-hwan Education Support Center, expanding educational expense subsidies, and scholarship programs to achieve educational development that residents can feel.

In particular, the Bang Jeong-hwan Education Support Center, scheduled to open next year, will be the largest in the autonomous district with two basement floors and seven above-ground floors, featuring diverse spaces such as a book caf?, self-directed learning rooms, youth community spaces, career and job experience support centers, and lecture rooms, expected to play a key role as an education control tower.

Moreover, since this year, the district has been conducting Seoul-type Innovative Education District operations reflecting the district’s characteristics, receiving great responses from residents.

Mayor Ryu Kyung-gi of Jungnang-gu stated, “It is meaningful that a communication channel with stakeholders and experts has been established through the formation of the Jungnang-gu Education Development Committee,” adding, “We will do our best to prepare top-level educational programs in substance so that Jungnang-gu becomes a prestigious educational city that all residents can relate to.”

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