The Education Ministry plans to toughen a local administrative law on education to enable it to transfer teachers deemed incompetent to clerical posts within prefectural boards of education, ministry sources said Monday.
The ministry plans to submit a bill on the amendment during the next regular Diet session, to be convened in January, according to the sources.
The ministry hopes to amend the law due to rising distrust of public schools.
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