A lot of moms are anxious to talk, and the kids are about to go to school, and they're afraid of paying fees and being forced to reportSmall connectionCounselling classes. In recent yearsPre-school educationThe era of brutal development has come to an end, and with the official inauguration of the prc pre-school education law and the advancement of the 15th education plan, 2026 became the key year for reform。
For a long time, the dual model of strict public gardening and liberal private gardening has ended, and all public, inclusive and private kindergartens throughout the country are subject to the same supervision. The next three changes, which relate directly to home-care spending, the way children grow up and the safety of teachers, whether the child is about to enter school or is already in school, require an advance understanding of the various types of pits on the way to childcare。
I. National harmonization of fee regulation, regional reductions in school coverage and elimination of hidden consumption
There is no greater pressure on parents than increases in school fees over the years, as well as unclear additional fees. Many privately run kindergartens are priced reasonably and continue to charge fees for special courses, gardening uniforms, consumables and grouping activities, resulting in high child-care costs for a year. With effect from 1 january 2026, the new fee rules introduced by the three ministries were formally implemented, with red lines being assigned to all fee lines to correct the problem at source。
The state has specified that kindergartens can be charged only five types of compliance fees: teaching, accommodation, childcare, voluntary extended care and school bus service, and meals. In addition to this, school selection grants, degree occupancy fees, additional fees for bilingual specialty classes, air conditioning materials, cost-sharing by family committees are all illegal fee items, which parents can directly refuse to pay and report to the education department, the market supervision department。
The new regulation also regulates the refund rule, and all the previous hegemonic provisions “without refunding the entire month's leave or the cost of moving the park back and forth” have been abolished. The child's long absence from work and transfer to school is strictly based on the number of days actually spent in the garden, with the reimbursement of the costs of teaching and meals, which must be publicized on a permanent basis. The increase in tuition fees in private, for-profit kindergartens takes six months to complete, and three years after that, no price increases will be allowed, and no price increases will be allowed to harvest the parents。
In addition, major school allowances are being implemented in the subregion, giving priority to the central and western districts, townships and low-income families. Children in public kindergartens who are eligible for classes are exempt from basic health insurance fees, and parents bear only the cost of meals and voluntary stay; the ceiling for inclusive private gardening is not more than 1. 3 times the local standard for public gardening, and the reduction policy is implemented simultaneously. For the time being, high-end, profit-making private kindergartens are not subsidized financially, but are also subject to new regulations on fees, which cannot be nominally charged。
In the future, the coverage of inclusive kindergartens will continue to rise, with a 90 per cent move towards the goal of making public or inclusive kindergartens a priority in the districts. Public degree tensions will gradually be eased, and ordinary families will no longer have to compete at higher prices for private kindergartens。
Ii. Comprehensive break-up of primary school and re-enactment of young connections to science, and farewell to pre-school anxiety
For a long time, pre-school education has been in the inner circle. Secondary classes begin to learn spellings, major classes have a large number of spellings and kindergartens have been pressured by parents to open courses of study. Once a kindergarten does not teach, parents are anxious that their children will not be able to follow in primary school and that they will not spend any money to enroll in an extracurricular workshop, which will harm the child's growth. Since 2026, negative lists of schools have been formally incorporated into mandatory examinations, and de-primaryization is no longer an oral but an enforcement policy requirement。
The department of education conducts regular spot checks on kindergarten teaching, classroom videos and early childhood work. It is strictly forbidden to teach chinese spelling, to add or to reduce to 100, to read and write in english, to write and write, and not to perform monthly examinations and grades. The core tasks of the kindergarten are to return to the priority of childcare, focusing on the self-care of the child, the exercise of self-food, clothing and the receipt of items, the day-to-day use of outdoor games, manual, graphic reading and natural observation, the protection of the child's curiosity and the avoidance of premature writing and writing to damage the development of the bones。
In order to overcome the dilemma of “kindergartens who are afraid to teach and play extracurricular classes”, the policy is controlled in both directions. In kindergarten, special classes are taught to adapt, with emphasis on listening to habits, rules, time attitudes and fine hand actions, not involving textbooks; in the first year of primary school, the teaching of a zero starting point is strictly implemented, all pupils are taught from zero, and children are not allowed to learn the contents of textbooks earlier. At the same time, the out-of-school connection training institutions are routinely regulated, do not allow for pre-primary classes, and a large number of small institutions relying on the profit of pre-school education are gradually leaving the market。
Here, two general errors are corrected. First, a child's failure to learn math and sound does not amount to a poor quality of kindergarten teaching and the early indoctrination of textbooks, which leads to the child's view that after the first grade, the curriculum is duplicated, the attention of the class is distracted and later learning is inadequate. Second, primary school attendance at zero levels is well adapted to the pace of primary school, relying on kindergarten habits and family guidance, and is sufficiently smooth to complete the transition of young children without the need to register blindly for high-cost shifts。
Iii. National harmonization of entry thresholds for young teachers, regularization of salaries and overall improvement in teacher stability
The teaching staff is uneven and is a long-standing cut-off for private kindergartens. There are problems in some small private parks where teachers are not accredited, care workers are not professionally qualified and staff are highly mobile, and where children are adapted to a teacher and change of staff, which is detrimental to their psychological development. Following the fall of the new land in 2026, uniform standards of access for public and private kindergartens were implemented, and the overall optimized upgrading of the teaching staff was welcomed。
All entry-level teaching staff must complete a background check prior to entry into service, and persons who have a record of offences against minors and are not qualified without a criminal certificate may not be recruited. The director requires undergraduate and above qualifications, holds a curator's certificate and has more than five years of first-degree teaching experience to gradually remove an unlicensed curator; the in-service teacher must be certified as a pre-school teacher, with the minimum level of post-secondary education and no longer be allowed to go to work with a zero-basic person; the carer, health doctor, security officer must have a corresponding vocational certificate。
The number of classes is also subject to mandatory control, with no more than 25 pupils in small classes, 30 in middle classes and 35 in senior classes. The system is strictly enforced to eliminate the presence of a teacher in the care of 30 or 40 young children, the closed-up of clandestine and undocumented care institutions and the safety of children in the garden。
In the area of pay security, the 15th plan clearly states that there is no work in preparation for pre-school education. The public-contracted kindergarten teacher is gradually being integrated into the fiscally integrated payment of salaries, closing the income gap between the staff and non-staffed teachers and guaranteeing paid leave during the winter holidays; and financial subsidies are being granted in inclusive public parks, giving priority to the payment of salaries for teaching staff, the setting of minimum wages for local kindergarten teachers and the elimination of arrears, unpaid overtime, etc. As a result of the salary increase, the teacher's separation rate has been reduced and the child has been able to have a stable accompanying teacher for three years. Childcare integration has also been promoted in all regions, with the establishment of additional day-care centres in public and inclusive schools for two to three-year-olds, to address the problem of child neglect in dual-care families。
Iv. A new approach for parents after the new rules
A series of policy adjustments and the selection of kindergarten thinking also require a timely shift away from the problems of the transition of old and new policies。
First, preference should be given to inclusive kindergartens in the near future, without the need to fight over popular gardens. The cost of inclusive education is transparent, the education board is strictly supervised, the benefits of class waivers are enjoyed simultaneously, the quality of teaching is steadily improving, and the proximity to home also reduces the daily commuting pressure。
Secondly, the old notion that “pre-school is a high-quality park” should be abandoned. When visiting the park, emphasis is placed on the length of daily outdoor activities, the criteria for three meals, and the teacher-student ratio of classes. Kindergartens that have been actively teaching spelling algorithms have not met the requirements of the latest policy and have long been detrimental to the child's development。
Third, active verification of park publicity. Regular kindergartens are required to make public the list of fees, teachers ' qualifications, monitor reporting calls, encounter compulsory fees, fail to comply with prior instruction, retain chats, video evidence and provide feedback to the education department。
Fourth, the main focus of the class is to develop a culture of serenity, to adjust sleep, to focus on classes, to prepare for school in accordance with the official programme of early enrolment。
On the whole, this series of reforms is essentially aimed at returning pre-school education to the public interest. In the future, the early childhood sector will be expected to wash cards, quality inclusive gardens will be mainstreamed and non-compliant small private parks will be phased out. Pre-school education no longer compares with pre-school teaching and high fees, but rather with safety, quality of care and teacher stability. For families in general, parental anxiety is gradually reduced and children are provided with scientifically sound initial education through inclusive resources。
