The state-owned senior middle school run by community is a kind of independent system in which the headmaster is the contractor with budget raised by the school itself. It is different from either state-owned public senior middle schools or individual-owned private ones. This kind of system features in the nationalization of education property, private management, marketing mechanism, self-raised budget, competitive operation, and macro-controlled by the government.Three backgrounds can be witnessed in the course of developing state-owned senior middle school run by community in China, including the economic, the educational and the social. The first one refers to public ownership with various economic components to coexist, which plays the primary role. The second one is the accelerating development of senior middle school with inadequate funds. The last one is optimistic because the social demand of senior education is vigorous as a result of people' increasing economic strength.The development of community -run senior middle school has anactive significance in the following five aspects: 1,it increases people's. investment to senior education, thus to ameliorate the insufficiency ofeducation funds. 2,it is conducive to stimulate domestic demand and then make the economy promoted. 3,it adequately meets the demands of people to choose whatever education they like. Therefore, it is beneficialto solve the problem of "selecting school". 4,it promotes the reform and renovation of the system of running senior middle school. 5,it promotes the teaching and quality of senior middle school.Nowadays there are many adverse elements in the development of state-owned senior middle school run by community. The key is how to understand it. The concept of developing high school by the state and the necessity of community-run school are still controversial. The society hasn't accepted it completely. However, with the Act For Promoting Community-run Education, community-run education is being encouraged actively, supported eagerly, guided properly and managed legally. Consequently, the state-owned senior middle schools which are run by community must be recognized by people.The development of state-owned senior middle school run by community of all places suggests there are mainly three models: 1, Famous schools running community school is the most vigorous one, with the forms of changing the ownership of the famous school and setting up a new branch school. Branch schools are usually established by expansion, annexation and cooperation between famous schools. 2, Relatively weak schools' changing their management system is advocated by the state and requires the support and favored policy of the government. 3, Setting up new schools (few in number) requires infrastructure funds offered by the government.Scientific management is needed to the sustainable development of state-owned senior middle school run by community. So a kind of management system should be built accordingly, including multi-resource investment system, share-hold system in education, modern school system, reasonable management system of teachers, the reform of enrollment of senior middle school, standard principle of collecting fees, macro-controlled government management system.The need of the development of national economy and education, along with the support of policy of running school and the gradual recognition by society will surely promote state-owned senior middle school run by community and make it the main part of the community-owned schools to shoulder the burden to improve the education in this front. |