A Study on the Cross-district Allocation Strategy of Provincial Basic Education Resources in the Context of Population Change
The low fertility rate and childlessness,as well as the divergence of regional population growth and decline,have posed a serious challenge to the optimal allocation of regional educational resources,and the es-tablishment of a mechanism for the provision of basic public education services that is coordinated with demo-graphic change is a pressing task.Exploring the cross-district allocation of educational resources is a necessity to optimize the allocation of regional educational resources.Taking Jiangsu Province as an example,using the data of national population census and other demographic statistics,it is known that there are differences in the status quo of elementary education school-age population among and within various regions in Jiangsu Prov-ince.The decrease of birth population in the province will have a reduction effect on the size of school-age population,but population migration can alleviate this reduction effect.In the future,the south of Jiangsu is to show a pattern of migration population increase or birth population decrease,and the central and north of Jiangsu is to show the pattern of birth population decrease or birth and migration population decrease.Against this backdrop,it is appropriate to adopt the idea of"exchanging space for time"to allocate basic education re-sources within provincial boundaries,which is both necessary and leeway.Based on this,it is possible to ex-plore cross-district allocation strategies for teachers,students,funding and schools,and to promote reforms of the education system and mechanisms in a gradual and locally adapted manner.