Education Act for Indigenous Peoples Article 14

Indigenous children shall be given preference when places are being allocated for children to attend public preschools, non-profit preschools, community and tribal cooperative educare service centers.When circumstances are deemed to require it, the central competent education authority may provide subsidies for the tuition fees for indigenous children to attend public or private preschools, non-profit preschools, and community or tribal cooperative educare service centers. The regulations governing the provision of such subsidies shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority.To ensure that indigenous children have opportunities to learn the language, history, and culture of their own indigenous people, and to bring into play each tribe’s desire and capacity to be actively involved, local governments shall provide advice and/or subsidies to tribes, legal entities, or groups to run community and tribal cooperative educare services.Local governments that handle the advice and/or subsidy matters referred to in the preceding paragraph shall encourage educare services being implemented using the local indigenous language or languages. The central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority and the central competent education authority may separately provide subsidies depending on actual need.Each competent municipal, county, and city social welfare authority shall encourage, guide, and commission the private sector to provide childcare services for indigenous children under two years old or do so itself. The central competent health welfare authority may provide assistance in the light of actual need.