EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM & PRACTICE IN JAPAN

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	“Local Coordinator” conducts coordination and liaison task between school and school support volunteers or between volunteers such as assigning volunteers to do actual activities, takes up virtual operation of Local Community Office Supporting Schools, and plays a key role to affect the outcome at the project. “School Support Volunteers” are community residents who conduct actual support activities. “Local Education Council” is a committee that plans and designs policies on what kind of supports the local community office will offer. Council members may be representatives of school, PTA, coordinators and volunteers, officials of social education facilities such as community centers, persons from such community involved groups as community association or chamber of commerce, but are actually determined by municipal board of education according to the actual situation of each community. If there has been an organization to discuss education for children, it is possible to turn that organization into Local Education Council. →　MEXT Promotion Committee for Local Community Office Supporting Schools, “All support schools, and all raise children” : “At the start of “Local Community Office Supporting Schools Project” (July 1st, 2008) (http://www.mext.go.jp/a_menu/01_l/08052911/004/002.htm)