Primary and Junior High School Act Article 13

All schools shall appoint a full-time principal who is responsible for the overall management of school affairs.The selection of principals of special municipality and county (city) schools shall be conducted using a publicly open selection process by a selection committee convened by the related special municipality or county (city) competent authority from among candidates who were selected in an open selection process and satisfactorily completed further training, or from among currently serving principals who have nearly completed their term of appointment or who are more than halfway into their second term, and persons who have previously served as principals. After a person has been selected, they shall be appointed to serve as principal by the special municipality or county (city) competent authority. However, special municipalities or counties (cities) with fewer than 15 junior high schools or 40 primary schools under their jurisdiction may appoint a principal currently serving a second term and are not subject to the requirement that the principal has to have completed more than half of their second term. The associated directions governing shall be prescribed by the special municipality or county (city) competent authority.The selection of the principals of experimental primary schools and of junior high schools affiliated with public universities that offer teacher education programs shall be conducted by a selection committee organized by the public universities that offers teacher education programs that the school is affiliated with. Suitably qualified personnel shall be selected to be from among the teachers of the university, and the principal or teachers of its affiliated experimental primary school or junior high school, and/or principals or teachers of other schools. The selected candidate shall then be appointed on a fulltime or adjunct basis by the president of the public university that offers teacher education programs, and a report submitted to the competent authority for future reference.A private school shall convene a principal selection committee to conduct the selection of its school principal; the directions governing the composition and convening of the selection committee, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the board of directors of the private school endowment corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “school legal person”).The selection committee referred to in the preceding paragraph shall select a principal from a list of qualified candidates, using a publicly open selection process.After selecting a suitably qualified private school principal, the board of directors of the school legal person shall submit details of the selected candidate to the special municipality or county (city) competent authority for approval before the person is appointed.Representatives of the parents’ association, and representatives of the teachers’ association, or teacher representatives shall be on the selection committee referred to in Paragraphs 2 and 3. The proportion of each category of representatives on the committee is not permitted to be less than one fifth, and the number of members of any gender is not permitted to constitute less than one third of the total number of committee members. The composition of the selection committee and the operations of the selection committee shall each be prescribed by the special municipality or county (city) competent authority, and by the public university that offers teacher training programs.