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MADIUN: Schools in Complexes Merged
One of the recommendations made by the MBE mapping team in Madiun was that multiple schools located in a single complex should be merged into one school with a single school principal. In August 2006 the Madiun district government took the decision to merge the schools in complexes. As a result of this decision they are now 58 state primary schools in the three subdistricts compared to 87 before the mergers. News of the school mergers was published in the Jawa Pos newspaper in the Radar Madiun section on Friday 4 August 2006.
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The news of the school mergers in Madiun appeared in the Jawa Pos newspaper in the Radar Madiun section on Friday 4 August 2006.
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A number of initiatives supported the school mergers, including limiting the terms of school princi-pals to four years, annual assessments of school principals' performance and a workshop on the results of the MBE mapping in Madiun, which was held on 25 January 2006.
The workshop sponsored by MBE gave the initial information about the results of the work of the mapping team and involved a cross section of education stakeholders. One of the advantages of a holding a stakeholders' meeting was that it gave the opportunity for a dialog to take place and the participants to give feedback. As a result, when the recommendations were translated into a decision there were no objections from the stakeholders.
PROBOLINGGO: Dynamic School Principals Group
The School Principals' Working Group (MKKS) was initially intended as a forum where school principals could have discussions and share ideas about managing their schools. However, over the past two decades these forums have normally been occupied with activities which are not in line with the original intention.
For example, the working groups normally spend more time listening to lectures on education policy given by officials from the center, province or the district. In Probolinggo district, however, the activities of the school principals working group are dynamic. For example, publicizing the ministerial regulations #22, 23, and 24 on school level curricula was not carried out by means of a lecture.
Organized and assisted by a number of MBE facilitators, who are also school principals, a discussion and sharing of experiences took place among the school principals just like in a training workshop.
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The school principals got together in geographical groups to decide on their strategy and response to the policy. As a result each group ended up with a different strategy which will create healthy competition between the various schools.
Sharing Policy: Managing School Finance
Kota Magelang - Kota Madiun
On 24 August 2006 the Kota Magelang Education Office received a group of visitors from Kota Madiun local government. The visitors consisted of representatives of the Education Office, Religious Affairs Office and Secondary School Principals Working Group from Madiun. They held discussions and shared information on integrated financial management policy at school level.
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Kota Magelang and Kota Madiun education office staff working together
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Integrated school financial management, where schools become a work unit under the education office, aims to apply the principles of transparent, participative and accountable performance budgeting according to the ministerial decree #29, 2002 on integrated financial management.
In order to ensure that integrated management is well implemented in schools, the education office has been giving assistance and training to school principals in drawing up their budgets as part of the implementation of the Mayoral instruction #900/34/122, 2003 on a "Performance Based School Financial Management in Kota Magelang".
PATI: Calculating Unit Costs and School Classification
Pemberian dana ke sekolah baik yang dilakukan pemerintah pusat (BOS) maupun pemkab Pati (Block Grant) serta dari komite sekolah (Wali Murid) harus didasari pada tingkat kebutuhan sekolah yang berpusat pada aktifitas siswa.
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Bpk Sarpan, head of the administrative section of the Pati education office stressing the importance of working out unit costs and classifying schools.
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Allocating funds to schools by the center in the form of school operational funding (BOS) from Pati district government in the form of a block grant and by the school committee should be based on the needs of schools and focused on student activities.
There are a variety of opinions in the community about the BOS and a block grant, including: 'Why do schools still ask for money from parents and in some cases large amounts, when their standard of service is below par?' To answer questions from the community, the Pati District Education Office took the initiative of working out the unit cost of educating students and classifying schools, in order to satisfy the demands of the local community for clarity and justice.
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