Binh Tan is the district leading Ho Chi Minh City in building new classrooms for the 2024-2025 school year.

7 more schools for Binh Tan students in the new school year

At the end of July 2024, Binh Tan district inaugurated 7 new public schools, including 1 kindergarten, 5 primary schools and 1 secondary school with 204 new classrooms, bringing the total number of classrooms in the district to 4,061 (public is 2,131).

They are Nguyet Que Kindergarten, Nguyen Cong Tru Primary School, Huynh Thuc Khang Primary School, Hoang Van Thu Primary School, Tran Cao Van Primary School, Dinh Cong Trang Primary School and Binh Tri Dong B Secondary School.

In the 2024-2025 school year, Binh Tan district is expected to welcome more than 6,800 children to 5-year-old kindergarten, more than 10,000 children to grade 1 and 10,530 students to grade 6. The district is lacking 1,226 classrooms for primary and secondary schools.

Thus, with 7 new schools put into use at the beginning of the new school year, Binh Tan is expected to reduce the number of students per class at the primary level when 5 more primary schools are put into use. The expected number of students per class is reduced from 42.2 students per class to about 41 students per class on average; the number of students at the secondary level is maintained.

According to the leader of Binh Tan District People's Committee, in order to have many new schools, the district sets high goals for creating land funds for education, site clearance and building new schools; sets public investment targets for the 2020-2025 period focusing on school projects.

The district also calls for socialization to increase the number of primary and secondary schools. By July 2024, Binh Tan district will also have 29 new classrooms from socialized sources (non-public schools).

The whole city is actively building schools.

As of July 31, Ho Chi Minh City had 12 schools inaugurated with 325 newly built classrooms. In addition to the 7 schools in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City has additional new schools scattered in Districts 8, 6, 12, Hoc Mon and Binh Chanh Districts.

District 12 also just inaugurated a public school, Thoi An Primary School, with 20 classrooms before July 31. Although only one more public school was completed before August, District 12 is the district with the highest number of additional non-public classrooms in the city, with 61 classrooms as of July 31 and 115 classrooms if calculated by the end of 2024.

According to the leader of the People's Committee of District 12, as a district with a severe shortage of schools due to a large immigrant population, the district is implementing many plans to increase the number of classrooms and implement new school projects. The district is continuing to review land funds to increase land funds for school construction and promote socialization in adding more schools.

From now until December, Ho Chi Minh City plans to have 6 new schools in District 4, Binh Thanh, Binh Tan, Nha Be, Hoc Mon, and Binh Chanh. With 6 new schools, Ho Chi Minh City plans to have 118 new classrooms in the public sector. In addition, the number of new classrooms invested in the form of socialization is 309.

Then in 2025, Ho Chi Minh City will continue to complete 280 new classrooms, including an additional 111 classrooms before April 30, 2025. In addition, the number of rooms invested in the form of socialization is 570 rooms.

The series of new schools inaugurated in Ho Chi Minh City at the end of July are part of Ho Chi Minh City's efforts to build 4,500 new classrooms to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification.

The Department of Education and Training has repeatedly deployed to 21 districts and Thu Duc City to proactively review and register the list of additional educational projects in the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025.

"We work continuously with departments and agencies, requesting that departments and agencies have a plan for coordination. Then we deploy it to Thu Duc City and 21 districts to develop a public investment plan for 2025 and the medium-term period 2021 - 2025 in the education sector," said Mr. Le Hoai Nam - Deputy Director of the Department.

Do not let the situation of having capital but not being able to disburse it

* How can Binh Tan district build 7 new schools and inaugurate them before the new school year in the context of increasingly limited land funds for education?

- Mr. Vu Chi Kien (Vice Chairman of Binh Tan District People's Committee, Ho Chi Minh City): The district's public investment target for the 2021-2025 term is to focus on prioritizing the construction of schools and classrooms, achieving the city's target of achieving 300 classrooms/10,000 people of school age from 3 to 18 years old.

The district has issued a project on implementing the school construction investment plan for the period 2020 - 2025 and vision to 2030, with the specific goal of building 700 - 1,000 classrooms by 2025 in the term 2020 - 2025, gradually striving to achieve the target of 300 classrooms/10,000 people of school age from 3 to 18 years old.

Identifying the acceleration of public investment disbursement as one of the important political tasks, the Binh Tan District Party Committee and People's Committee have focused on leading the entire system to carry out compensation and site clearance work to speed up the progress of public investment disbursement, resolutely not allowing the situation of having capital but not being able to disburse; tightening discipline and order in disbursing public investment capital and strictly and effectively implementing the direction of the City Party Committee and People's Committee, with the following solutions:

Direct investors to develop detailed monthly disbursement plans for each project, organize weekly meetings on disbursement to promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles within their authority and promptly propose related issues within the authority of departments, branches and the city; establish 3 working groups to propagate, mobilize and persuade people to agree on project policies and hand over land to speed up the progress of public investment projects.

As a result, 7 schools with 204 classrooms have been completed and put into use. It is expected that by December 2024, 1 more school with 30 new classrooms will be completed and put into use.