Education Act for Indigenous Peoples Article 34

When selecting fulltime teachers for indigenous key schools and indigenous classes teachers who have one of the local indigenous identities shall be appointed to constitute a specific proportion of the teacher vacancies being filled in the current year.Within ten years from when this amendment of the Act comes into force on May 24, 2019, the proportion of teachers with an indigenous identity appointed to teach in indigenous key schools offering elementary stage education shall not be permitted to be less than one-third of the school’s teaching staff or to comprise a lower proportion of the teaching staff than the proportion of the school’s total student population comprised by its indigenous students. The proportion of teachers with an indigenous identity appointed to teach in indigenous key schools offering junior high school and senior secondary stage education is not permitted to be less than 5% of the teaching personnel at any such school.The specific proportion of the teacher vacancies referred to in Paragraph 1 shall be decided by the competent education authority concerned.If at least one-half of the students at an indigenous key school have an indigenous identity, when a person is being selected or appointed to be the school’s director or principal, preference shall be given to selecting a person who has an indigenous identity and who is qualified to be appointed as a director or a principal.The regulations governing the selection and appointment of the teachers, directors, and principals referred to in Paragraph 1 and in the previous paragraph shall be prescribed by the central competent education authority in conjunction with the central competent indigenous peoples’ affairs authority.