This Act is formulated to promote educational innovation, encourage the private sector’s involvement in experimental education at public schools at the senior high school level or below（hereunder referred to as “schools”）, protect the right to learn and receive education, improve opportunities to choose educational method and content, enhance diverse development in education, and implement the provisions of Article 13 of the Educational Fundamental Act.

In this Act the term “competent authority” refers to the Ministry of Education at the central government level, to the municipal government at the special municipality level, and the county or city government at the county or city level.

The following terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
1.Commissioning a private operator: refers to the competent authority that authorizes the establishment of schools（hereunder referred to as “the relevant competent authority”）entering into an administrative contract with a commissioned party commissioning that party to operate an entire school or to operate a branch, division, or distinct program of a school, or a part of the campus or buildings of a newly established school that can be clearly delineated and separated. The commissioned operation shall be based on the nature of the education that the school provides and encompass use of school land, buildings, and teaching facilities, school district zoning, collection of tuition and fees in accordance with the law, curriculum, personnel management of the principal, teaching personnel, and other staff, administrative organization, the staffing complement, class organization principles, teaching assessment, use of school funds, and school evaluation.
2.Commissioned party: refers to a natural person with domestic nationality, a non-profit private corporation, or a non-government organization or group commissioned by the relevant competent authority to operate a school. However, a school endowment corporation and any private school or short-term supplementary learning center that it has established is not permitted to be a commissioned party.
3.Consigned school: refers to a public school that the relevant competent authority has commissioned the operation of to a commissioned party that still remains a public school.
The criteria to be met for the establishment of the newly-established school referred to in Subparagraph 1 of the preceding paragraph may be exempt from the provisions of ordinances that pertain to the establishment of schools at each educational level.
The natural person, or legal representative or person in charge of a private corporation, non-government organization or group referred to in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding paragraph is not permitted to be someone to whom any of the situations stipulated in the subparagraphs of Paragraph 1, Article 31 of the Act of Governing the Appointment of Educators pertain.

When a private sector operator of a school is commissioned, the relevant competent authority shall provide the consigned school with personnel funding equivalent to that for the teaching and other staff in the staffing complement of other schools of the same level and size, and equivalent funding to cover, building and equipment expenses, and operating costs. The personnel budget shall be adjusted annually based on the salary and wages of teachers, and other personnel.
The part of the personnel expenses referred to in the preceding paragraph paid to teachers shall be calculated using the criteria governing the payments for full-time teachers.
The consigned school may allocate the funding referred to in Paragraph 1 move flexibly between the various use items listed on the budget, with the exception that the consigned school is not permitted to divert any of the personnel budget to another use and is not permitted to divert any funds for capital expenditures to any other use..
The consigned school shall provide education in a way that protects students’ right to receive education and puts the public welfare, public purpose, efficacy, experimental nature, diversity, and innovation of basic national education into practice.

A consigned school is permitted to not apply the provisions of the laws, their associated regulations, and this is the correct term for self-governing regulations despite all the mistakes online listed below pertaining to school district zoning, collection of tuition and fees in accordance with the law, curriculum, the principal, the employment of teaching personnel and other staff, administrative organization, personnel numbers and the staffing complement, class organization principles, and teaching assessment:
1.Paragraph 2 of Article 4, Paragraph 3 of Article 5, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 6, Paragraph 1 of Article 8, Article 8-2, Paragraphs 1 to 5 of Article 9, Paragraphs 2 to 4 and 6 of Article 10, and Articles 12, 13, and 18 of the Primary and Junior High School Act.
2.Articles 14, 16, 18 and 19, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 20, Paragraph 1 of Article 24, Articles 30 and 33, Paragraph 1 of Article 39, Paragraph 1 of Article 43, Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 45, Articles 46, 48 and 49, and Paragraph 4 of Article 56 of the Senior High School Education Act.
3.Articles 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 21, 27, and 28 of the Act of Governing the Appointment of Educators.
The relevant competent authority shall clearly state which aspects of the legislative items listed in the previous paragraph that will not apply and alternative arrangements that will replace them in the administrative contract entered into with the commissioned party.
The consigned school shall handle the appointment of teaching personnel, student admissions, curriculum, and teaching in accordance with the provisions of the Gender Equity Education Act.