Tangerang lacks school teachers

Tangerang lacks school teachers

TANGERANG: Tangerang regency needs at least 3,450 more
teachers as it has only 4,500 of them for its 1,076 elementary
schools in 26 districts.

Regent Agus Djunara said on Thursday that the lack of teachers
hampered efforts to improve education.

"An elementary school ideally should have at least 10 teachers
comprising the principal, six regular teachers and three teachers
for sports, English and religion respectively," he told reporters
at SD 03/04 state elementary school complex in Lengkong Wetan
village, Serpong, Tangerang.

The regent was attending the handover ceremony of a new
library with 500 books and a scholarship from the Foundation for
the Development of Indonesian Children. -- JP