Some 20 schools merge in Bogor

Some 20 schools merge in Bogor

Bogor: The Bogor municipal administration plans to merge 20
elementary schools for various reasons, including their rundown
condition and a shortage of both students and teachers, an
official says.

Head of the Bogor Basic Education Agency Ade Sarip Hidayat
said 23 of the 282 elementary schools in the city were in a state
of disrepair.

He said that this year the city planned to renovate only 11
elementary schools.

According to Ade, a number of elementary schools in the
municipality have less than 100 students.

Without mentioning the current number of teachers, he said
that Bogor municipality needed 540 more elementary school
teachers. --JP