[[alternative]]Investigation of the available models of private management of public elementary schools in Taipei County

[[abstract]]The four purposes of the present study are as follows：1. Understanding the implementation of private management of public elementary schools in Taiwan. 2. Investigating the available models of private management of public elementary schools in Taipei County. 3. Exploring relevant problems in and limitations of the implementation of private management of public elementary schools in Taipei County, such as budget source, financial regulation, curriculum and teaching, personnel system and scope of recruitment. 4.Proposing suggestions based on the results for the educational authorities as references for future implementation. Literature analysis, questionnaire survey and interview are primary methods employed in the present study. The conclusions summarizing literature analysis, questionnaire survey and interview results are as follows： 1.Implementation of private management of public elementary school in Taipei County can contribute to the development of school feature, the fulfillment of teacher profession autonomy and the improvement of educational quality 2.“Charter school model” and “contract management model” are of the highest feasibility in terms of the implementation of private management of public school in elementary school level in Taipei County. 3.Private management of public elementary school in Taipei County should possess decision-making power in some aspects including budget source, financial regulation, curriculum and teaching, personnel system and scope of recruitment. 4.Priority over private management of public school option is new established schools, schools with no further students, low-achieving schools, schools located in remote districts, and schools in the urban areas. 5.Formal private management of public elementary school in Taipei County should be implemented after experimentation, evaluation and the development of a complete set of measures. Suggestions based on the results are as follows: 1.To demonstrate the characteristics of foresights, multiplicity , and innovation in education and to promote educational quality, partial implementation of private management of public school in Taipei County or around the country should be feasible. However it can only be implemented with sound mechanism—survey, exposition conference, and testimony in order to generate common consensus and to develop complete set of measures and law-based formulation. 2.The government should accelerate to enact the laws about charter school and experiment elementary and high school or the special laws about authorized management. 3.The Taipei County government should revise “….” and to make “…” as the base of implementation. 4.Private management of public schools should be authorized with decision-making power in budget, personnel, curriculum and teaching. 5.Priority over private management of public school option should be new established schools and schools with no further students. 6.After formal implementation of private management of public school, the administration has to establish relevant systems of control, management, guidance and evaluation.