Gyeongbuk Superintendent of Education Lim Jong-sik: "No Disadvantages for Parents and Students When Promoting TK Administrative Integration"

The Gyeongbuk Office of Education (Superintendent Lim Jong-sik) announced on the 24th that, with the recent resumption of the suspended Daegu-Gyeongbuk administrative integration, it will propose including education-related matters in the special law to ensure that students and parents in Gyeongbuk do not suffer disadvantages from the integration and to create a stable educational environment.

To strengthen support for small schools in rural farming and fishing villages, they stated that they will secure local education finance grants at levels equal to or greater than before the integration, ensure the realization of substantial local autonomy through the transfer of authority from the central government, and promote stable education policies by creating equal learning conditions between regions and schools even after integration.

Lim Jong-sik, Superintendent of Gyeongbuk Education

Additionally, to minimize anxiety among students and parents caused by the integration, a dedicated integration consultative body will be formed with related organizations such as the Gyeongsangbuk-do and Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education until the Daegu-Gyeongbuk administrative integration is completed, to ensure that education-related matters are reflected in the integration legislation during the future implementation process.

Superintendent Lim Jong-sik said, “Taking the Daegu-Gyeongbuk administrative integration as an opportunity, we will do our best to develop Gyeongbuk education by utilizing the educational infrastructure dispersed across both regions.”

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