Education superintendents call for emergency meeting
Mounting concerns over losing funding for Nuri Program

As the central government and local education offices continue to clash over which side should finance the Nuri Program, a free childcare program for children aged three to five, the country's superintendents of education are calling for an emergency meeting to be held.

In a Wednesday press conference, the National Council of Superintendents of Education proposed holding an emergency meeting next Friday with leaders of the ruling and opposition parties, the Minister of Strategy and Finance, the Minister of Education, and the head of the National Council of Superintendents of Education. The plan would be for the attendees to come up with measures to solve the problem.

Earlier in the day, the Minister of Strategy and Finance said superintendents were displaying a neglect of duty by not including the Nuri Program in their local budgets. In response, the council said that if the central government takes legal action to force local education offices to pay for the program, they will be forced to take whatever countermeasures are open to them.

전국시도교육감協, '누리과정 긴급회의 제안'

누리과정 예산 미편성으로 보육대란이 우려되고 있는 가운데 전국시도교육감협의회가 정부와 국회가 참여하는 긴급회의를 제안했습니다.

전국시도교육감협의회는 오늘(6일) 서울시교육청에서 긴급기자회견을 갖고 오는 15일 이전에 여야 대표와 기재부 장관, 교육부 장관, 시도교육감협의회회장이 참여하는 긴급회의를 열어 해결방안을 마련할 것을 촉구한다고 밝혔습니다.

협의회는 감사원 감사와 검찰 고발 등으로 문제가 해결될 수 없다며 정부가 법적 조치를 취할 경우 교육감들은 가능한 모든 방법을 동원해 대처하겠다고 덧붙였습니다.