China bars foreign curricula, ownership in some private schools

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China's State Council has announced tough new curbs on school curricula and ownership of private schools, the latest in a series of measures intended to tighten control of the country's fast-growing education sector.

The new law, which comes into effect on Sept. 1, halts the teaching of foreign curricula in schools from kindergarten to grade nine (K-9) and prohibits the ownership or control of any private K-9 schools by foreign entities.

China currently has private K-9 schools that teach local and foreign curricula. Ninth grade students in China are typically 15 or 16 years old.

Members of the board of directors or any other decision- making body at a private K-9 school must be Chinese nationals and must include representatives from the regulators, according to the Private Education Promotion Law published on Friday on a government website.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bars-foreign-curriculum-ownership-some-private-schools-2021-05-17/

For those that don't know about this, let me explain.

There are three major international Curricula:

International Baccalaureate (IB), which offers PYP (elementary), MYP (junior high), and DP (high school).
Cambridge International Examinations, which offers KS1-KS3 (elementary and junior high), IGCSE (9th-10th grade) and A-Levels (AS and A2, which is 11th and 12th)
Advanced Placement, which is all high school.

With this law, PYP, MYP, KS1, KS2, and KS3 are now banned, as they must get a strictly Chinese based education for the mandatory first nine years.

High School doesn't apply.

However, Xi Jinping has banned all AP Social Studies based AP exams from being tested on Mainland China.

Xi Jinping is trying to out-Mao Mao Zedong.