In Official Dispatch No. 814/TTg-TCCV, the Prime Minister requested localities to focus on reviewing and implementing the arrangement of public preschool, general, regular, and vocational education (CSGD) institutions in the area.
The arrangement is implemented in the direction that each commune-level administrative unit must ensure at least 1 preschool CSGD, 1 general CSGD to supply enough primary and secondary school levels, ensuring flexibility, according to a roadmap, suitable to the actual situation of the locality to achieve the goal of reducing at least 30% of focal points.
For places with favorable conditions, reduce about 50% of focal points compared to July 1, 2025, completion before August 30, 2026.
The requirement is not to let the reorganization process affect the new school year. The Government requires localities to ensure sufficient schools, classes, teachers, textbooks and minimum teaching equipment; and at the same time handle the situation of local teacher surplus and shortage, prioritizing direct teaching staff.
Another urgent requirement and the biggest problem today is the arrangement of staff after arrangement.
Reality in localities is raising a series of issues: the organizational structure of new schools, job positions, arrangement of management staff, regulating teachers between surplus and shortage, arranging educational support staff.
In Resolution No. 37/2026/NQ-CP, the Government requires the arrangement of the structure and number of principals, directors, vice principals, deputy directors, and educational support personnel according to regulations to be completed before September 30, 2026.
Each CSGD will be arranged with 1 principal or 1 director.
For preschool, general education, continuing education centers, and main schools, 1 deputy principal or 1 deputy director is arranged; each branch is arranged with 1 deputy principal or 1 deputy director;
For intermediate schools and vocational secondary schools, the number of vice principals is implemented according to the provisions of law on the number of deputy heads.
On August 18, according to the Government Department of Information and Communications, the whole country is expected to reduce about 46.73% of CSGD focal points, equivalent to about 17,353 focal points compared to July 1, 2025. In which, 10 localities are expected to reduce by over 50%; 13 localities reduce from 45% to 50% and 10 localities reduce from 35% to under 45%.
Many localities have begun to develop plans suitable for residents, areas and learning needs, forming models of multi-level schools, main schools associated with branches and school sites.
Reports from 28/34 provinces and cities show that after arrangement, it is expected to form about 2,254 general schools with multiple levels of education. Localities have gradually shifted from the mindset of merging schools to reorganizing the network and school governance model.
After the arrangement, more than 32,000 management officials may be assigned to work as teachers, contributing to solving the teacher shortage situation. Along with that, about more than 11,000 redundant administrative staff need to be further arranged in localities.
If reducing focal points sets requirements for efficiency, then in mountainous areas, remote areas, border areas, islands and ethnic minority areas, the first problem is the distance to school.
Therefore, the same arrangement model should not be applied to all areas. The school organization plan must take into account population, terrain, traffic, school distance and the actual conditions of students.
In places with special conditions, it is not necessary to bring all students to a single facility. The main school can be linked to branches, school sites or other suitable models to both improve management efficiency and maintain a reasonable distance to school.
