Preliminary legal exploration of the "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS) program

Chinese Education and Society

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-22

  Ran, Zhang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 50149083044     PISSN: 10611932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/CED1061-1932410102     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Circular of the State Economic Commission and Ministry of Finance on Perfecting the Grant System for Secondary and Elementary School Students (July 7, 1995).
2. Circular on Carrying Out and Perfecting the Grant System for Poor Secondary and Elementary School Students (September 24, 2001).
3. State Council Decision on Further Strengthening Rural Education Work (September 20, 2003).
4. Interim Regulations for Administering the Work of Free Provision of Textbooks to Rural Compulsory Education Stage Students from Families with Financial Difficulties (February 16, 2004).
5. The Opinions on Work Related to Accelerating the Pace of Implementation of TEOS in Key Counties under the State Poverty Alleviation and Development Work Plan, passed by the Finance Ministry and Education Ministry in February 2005, stipulated that the scope covered by central finances should consist of the textbooks for state-required subjects; textbooks used by local courses were to be provided free of charge by local finances.
6. The State Council's Circular on Deepening the Rural Compulsory Education Assured Funding Mechanism Reform (December 24, 2005). This circular, which was directed at rural compulsory education, also mentioned that "compulsory education stage students from households that benefit from the urban residents' minimum livelihood guarantees policy shall benefit simultaneously from TEOS for rural compulsory education stage secondary and elementary school students."
7. Law on Compulsory Education (passed on April 12, 1986; revised on June 29, 2006), Articles 2, 42, and 44.
8. Implementation Guideline on Exempting Rural Compulsory Education Stage Students Nationwide from Tuition and Miscellaneous Fees (January 19, 2006).
9. The State Council's Circular on Deepening the Rural Compulsory Education Assured Funding Mechanism Reform (December 24, 2005).
10. Implementation Plan for Reforming the Rural Compulsory Education Assured Funding Mechanism in Fifteen Provinces in the Central and Eastern Regions, Zhongguo Jiaoyu Bao (China education news) (March 12, 2007): 5-6.
11. Henan Province Rural Compulsory Education Stage Two Exemptions and One Subsidy Implementation Plan (August 29, 2007).
12. See the Shanxi Province Implementation Plan for Carrying Out the "Two Exemptions and One Subsidy" for Rural Compulsory Education Stage Students from Families with Financial Difficulties (April 14, 2005); Opinions of the Shandong Provincial Finance Department and the Shandong Provincial Education Department on Implementing the "Two Exemptions and One Subsidy" for Compulsory Education Stage Students from Families that Benefit from the Urban Residents' Minimum Livelihood Guarantees Policy (April 26, 2006).