Primary and Junior High School Act Article 48

To protect the rights and interests of children during the primary and junior high school stages of their education, their parents shall play their part by taking responsibility for counseling their children and attending parent association meetings. Parents have the right to participate in educational affairs to ensure students’ rights to learn and their personal rights. The regulations governing participation methods, content, procedures, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the central competent authority.Each school shall establish a parents’ association comprising parents of the current students, and its name shall begin with the name of the school. Autonomous regulations governing the association’s charter, tasks, number of committee members, method of selecting committee members, terms served by committee members, election and recall of committee members, rules of procedure, funding sources, financial management, operations, and other related matters shall be prescribed by the special municipality or county (city) competent authority in which the school is located, after consulting parent groups.The competent authorities at each level shall regularly assist parent groups to conduct empowerment training for parent involvement in education affairs.