Primary and Junior High School Act Article 23

In principle, public schools shall have small classes and each class shall have a teacher serving as its homeroom teacher on a part-time basis. Small schools may consider increasing the number of teaching positions. The regulations governing class sizes and staffing shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.The regulations governing staffing referred to in the preceding paragraph may be prescribed based on the number of students’ learning periods and the number of hours the teachers teach.The special municipality or county (city) competent authority may consider a school’s needs, and in accordance with the provisions of the regulations referred to in Paragraph 1 and remaining within a fixed proportion of the full-time staff complement of the entire school, shall use all of the fulltime personnel staffing budget not being spent because of staff vacancies to pay expenses to employ necessary teaching staff for the school.