500 grade schools have no clerks

500 grade schools have no clerks

BANTUL, Yogyakarta: All 500 elementary schools in Bantul
regency have no administrative staff to support their daily
operation.

"The absence of administrative staff at the elementary schools
is a serious challenge for the local administration to improve
the quality of education in the regency," Regent Idham Samawi
said in a coordination meeting here on Tuesday.

He stated that only 20 percent of the elementary schools had
their own library that could meet the minimum standards.

He conceded many parents had sent their children to high
schools in the provincial capital of Yogyakarta because of the
poor state of high schools in the regency. -- Antara