Primary and Junior High School Act Article 20

To handle educational affairs, student affairs, general affairs, and other matters, schools shall set up, separately or in combination, a tier-one unit and/or a tier-two unit, depending on the size of the school.The tier-one units referred to in the preceding paragraph have a director and the tier-two units referred to in the preceding paragraph have a section chief, and tier-one and tier-two units both also have several staff members. The directors at public schools shall be appointed to serve on a part time basis by the principal from among qualified full-time teachers who were selected and then satisfactorily completed further training; the section chiefs shall be selected from among the teachers to serve on a part-time basis, or from among the staff to serve on a full-time or part-time basis; and the staff of the units shall be selected and assigned by the principal. The selections and assignments shall all be submitted to the special municipality or county (city) competent authority for future reference.Schools shall set up personnel and accounting units. Smaller public schools which have not set up such dedicated units may employ full-time personnel and accounting staff from agencies of the special municipality or county (city) competent authority (organization) for personnel and accounting, schools’ fulltime personnel and accounting personnel, or qualified staff who have satisfactorily completed associated training organized by a relevant authority and work on a part-time basis. The standards governing the staffing of the units shall be in accordance with the provisions of related ordinances.The personnel referred to in the preceding paragraph do not include nursing personnel.Any full-time public school teacher who was in any of the circumstances listed in the following subparagraphs in the previous three years is not permitted to participate in the selection of a director, training to serve as a director, or obtain the qualifications to serve as a director:1. The person has been found guilty of a criminal offense. However, this restriction does not apply if a final and conclusive court judgment declared that the person was not guilty.2. The person is subject to disciplinary action which has not been revoked.3. The person has received a demerit or more severe administrative penalty, which has not been revoked.The regulations governing the selection and further training of directors at public schools, and other associated matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.