I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 35 The Healthy Development of Private Education

It's a bit unrealistic for the Municipal Education Bureau to directly establish a new company, but it makes sense to say that it's investing in and building a new school.

Zhang Da'an bought the fixed assets of Dongweigang Middle School. Originally, it was supposed to cost around 1.5 million yuan, but in the end, he only spent a little over 900,000 yuan. This incident is also recorded at Chengnan Middle School, where teachers almost put the principal in a sack.

The newly registered middle school was not originally related to the "public-private partnership" policy because Zhang Da'an was directly engaged in a utilitarian education cause. Now the situation is a bit different. After the Municipal Education Bureau reported the actual situation to the city, the vice mayor in charge of education led a team to conduct a third rural inspection.

Accompanying the deputy mayor was the former mayor, who had retired quite a while ago, ten years ago.

He was already over seventy years old, wearing a short-sleeved white shirt under the blazing sun, and then accompanied the deputy mayor as he wandered around the construction site of Xindongwei Port Middle School.

That's enough, just showing up is fine.

Based on the suggestion of the municipal state-owned assets company, the construction of Xindongwei Port Middle School in Binjiang Town, Shazhou City, will aim to be a high-standard, modern middle school.

Implementing the "public-private partnership" policy will safeguard the healthy development of private education and set a good example for the public's investment in education.

Then he took out 20 million yuan to invest in Xindongwei Port Middle School in Binjiang Town, Shazhou City, holding 20% ​​of the shares, but not participating in its operation and management.

This contract is currently only a draft, and its implementation will not be until May of next year.

To be precise, it was May 10th.

The day was not chosen because of any auspicious date, but because it was the birthday of the owner of "Zhang An Education," who turned eighteen.

Moving.

How many junior high classes are there?

"Six, three hundred people at full capacity."

"What about the high school class?"

"Currently, there are eleven, but it can be expanded to sixteen. It is still under study and discussion. The main issue is that the teaching staff is relatively tight. The school has extremely strict control over the teaching staff. Not many people received internal certification after the second batch of internal training in August. We can barely support more than twenty teachers now, which brings the minimum teaching staff requirement to fifty-four."

"Can't we transfer them from top-tier high schools?"

"More than a dozen 'teaching experts' have failed the interview process. Two 'special-grade teachers' from No. 1 Middle School also failed, because they were told they did not meet the teaching requirements."

“So strict?”

"There is an internal 'Zhang An Certification' that you need to get to be promoted from teaching assistant to associate lecturer. The requirements for main lecturer are even higher."

"Can't you be tolerant at all?"

"Last year, the pass rate for provincial key high schools was 100%, and the pass rate for national key high schools was 90%. This year, the number of students has doubled, but the expected target has not been lowered. Instead, it has been set at 95%."

Do parents really believe that?

“Mayor Xiao, this is an internal target, a promise to the parents, it’s not that exaggerated. Many parents just want their children to get into a provincial key school.”

"Isn't this a bit too much confidence?"

Mayor Xiao, who is in charge of education, is not entirely confident, but he also admits that his responsibilities have yielded positive results in many areas over the past year and this year.

In particular, the tax figures for "Zhang An Education" are impressive. In the first half of the year, it wasn't noticeable, since it was just selling some teaching materials and operating on a small scale, with only a few hundred thousand yuan coming and going, which was not worth mentioning. However, during the summer vacation, the company collected more than 40 million yuan in tuition fees in a single month, which was truly astonishing.

The demand for supplementary teaching materials is also booming, with two product lines already launched: "Zhang An's Secret Exam Papers" and "Top Scholar's Treasure Trove." The former is being sold wholesale to multiple schools, mainly in county-level cities surrounding Shazhou City; the latter has begun distribution to other cities within the province, with the Education Bureau assisting in its sales.

The Education Bureau was quite pleased with the channel fees collected. The day after Zhang Da'an was interviewed by CCTV, "Top Scholar's Guide" became a minor hit in the mass market.

In other words, the college entrance examination supplementary teaching materials have not yet been finalized; otherwise, it would have been impossible to only generate a revenue of over eight million yuan from supplementary teaching materials this year.

Now the city just wants to know when "Zhang An Education" will break the 100 million mark.

To be precise, it's not publicly listed; otherwise, a market capitalization of over 100 million would be a piece of cake.

The Education Bureau has only one expectation for the future: the results of next year's college entrance examination will determine the depth of development of "Zhang'an Education".

Moreover, Zhang Da'an has said he wants to repeat a year of high school and even boasted that he will produce another top scorer in the college entrance examination, which makes this a worthwhile investment.

Unfortunately, it wasn't convenient to directly invest in "Zhang An Education" because it would be suspected of "reaping the benefits," so we opted for a second-best option: a cooperative school construction project.

The Education Bureau acted quite quickly. If it had been any later, the Wudu City Education Bureau would have wanted to cooperate with "Zhang An Education." There are plenty of platforms available, and there are as many rural middle schools waiting to be closed as there are.

So this situation is a typical case of "first come, first served," and the city government in Shazhou City also acted swiftly, providing the Education Bureau with many conveniences.

When the vice mayor in charge of education goes to the countryside for inspection, it basically means that tax and fee reductions for business operations have been implemented smoothly.

Currently, there is a lot of construction going on around Xindongwei Port Middle School. It's not something that can be approved casually. Some of the land is farmland, and changing its classification requires overcoming many obstacles.

Fortunately, the communication went smoothly. Although the farmland was farmland, it was just the private land of a dozen or so households in a production team of a surrounding village. After acquiring it, accommodation and catering facilities would be built, and a paved village road would be given to the brigade as a bonus.

The decision to focus on accommodation and catering was made by Zhang Da'an. He was well aware of how the business of specializing in repeat students would evolve. Once the scale expanded, there would be 100% of parents who wanted to accompany their children to study.

If it were just an ordinary high school, parents could simply rent a house; but "Zhang An Education" is a high-end customized program, and the students' families generally have a higher standard of living, so they have higher requirements for the quality of accommodation.

The returns from this area are substantial; the larger the school, the higher the income, and it's considered an extremely stable, fixed income.

Of course, this is all predicated on the fact that Xindongweigang Middle School can continue to operate.

With the city officials' inspection concluded, the city's stance was clear: the third enrollment fair organized by "Zhang An Education" in August was no longer a small event; the venue was moved directly from the basketball court in the city gymnasium to the football field.

The Education Bureau coordinated the deployment of over forty security guards; the scene was almost as lively as organizing an outdoor sports lottery draw.

Zhang Da'an himself, along with Zhao Yiwan, Qian Xiaoshuang, and others, worked non-stop. Thirty people at "Zhang An Education" were exhausted, but the boss was still full of energy and could even compete with parents who came to argue.

"Teacher Zhang, your 'Zhang An Education' fees are too high! The tuition for retaking the college entrance exam is 58,000 yuan a year. Tutoring classes in Loucheng only cost a few thousand yuan a year."

“Auntie, I’m charging 58,000 yuan, so naturally I’m doing 58,000 yuan worth of work. Don’t talk about others charging a few thousand yuan, or even a few hundred yuan, it has nothing to do with me. I’m the top scorer in the national college entrance examination and the top scorer in the middle school entrance examination in Wudu City. If I charge less, many parents won’t accept it.”

"Oh my, Teacher Zhang, you're the top science student! My child is a humanities student, it's different. Can you give us a discount for humanities students?"

“Auntie, you can’t discriminate against people who study humanities. Humanities and science are the same. I was the top science student this year, and I can be the top humanities student next year too.”

"Teacher Zhang, you make it sound so easy. Is it that easy to become the top liberal arts student?"

"As long as you have hands."

"..."

(End of this chapter)