Government Funding, Standardized Quality, and Subsidies in Kindergartens

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This chapter explores the significance of government funding for non-profit schools, emphasizing the necessity of standardized quality in facilities and teachers. It highlights that private kindergartens comprise 55% of all kindergartens in China, despite their declining numbers, and discusses the proposal of directing subsidies directly to students rather than kindergartens.

Kindergartens provide preschool children with the opportunity to socialize, receive education, and ease their ways into compulsory primary education. While parents and children's demand for kindergarten services continues to grow and upgrade, the distribution of such demand is constantly shifting. Recently, some places in China have started cutting the number of kindergartens or consolidating them. What is the likely consequence of such moves? On the show: Laiming, Niu Honglin & Brandon Yates