Districts to be handed primary schools’ reins
Beginning this year, the Education Ministry will hand over management of 625 primary schools, 4,874 teachers and over 170,000 students to 14 districts in Battambang as part of a new initiative to decentralise and improve primary education. The districts will also absorb the management of about 200 state-run pre-schools and kindergartens, in addition to hundreds of community pre-schools, said Ngan Chamroeun, deputy head of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development. …
Kong Meta and Yesenia Amaro
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