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Dandelion School, a nonprofit educational institute located in Daxing District, the outskirt area of Beijing City, is the first and only middle school built especially for the children from low-income migrant families in Beijing. It is now in the process of establishment and opened its doors in middle of August 2005.

School has defined its mission as: Giving back the right to quality education to migrant children.

Founders and teachers of the school share the following understanding about education: Through education we nurture a child's character, by nurturing a child's character we make the world better.

The school follows the guidance of the State Compulsory Education Law. And all teachers possess State Teaching Certificates. In addition to the state curriculum, the school will develop courses to meet the special needs of migrant children. The school will accept 7th and 8th grade students this year. A full range of middle school will be established within two years. This will prepare the children well for continuing their high school education or vocational education.

Dandelion School occupies about 18 Chinese Mu with 24 large classrooms. In order to provide basic study condition that many children do not have at home, school now has the facility to board about 540 students. Standard Physics, Chemistry. Biology and computer labs are also built. A music room, art studio and a workshop have been built as well.

Background Information

There are 130 million migrant population in China currently. Among them 80,000,000 are peasant workers, and over 20 million are children of school age. About 25% of them are living under poverty line. According to China's education law, nine years of compulsory education is a basic right for children. However, the right-to-education of the children from poor migrant families has been largely neglected.

The current residential registration system and low level of income are the two major barriers for these children to enter either public schools or private schools. Desirable policies and actions that can move toward solving this problem are not in position yet.

 

To know more about Dandelion School, log on to http://www.dandelionschool.org/e_gi.htm

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