Innovation Education Local Government Council Holds Working Committee Meeting Online

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] The Innovation Education Local Government Council (Chairman Kwak Sang-wook, Mayor of Osan), a gathering of local governments for regional educational innovation, held its 2021 Working Committee Meeting online on the 19th.

The Innovation Education Local Government Council was founded in 2018. Local governments implementing innovative education gather to promote regional educational development and national educational innovation, carrying out various educational cooperation activities in the era of local autonomy such as education-related policy briefing sessions, region-specific panel discussions, and educational policy proposals.

At the working committee meeting on that day, 60 officials from Osan City as the chair city along with nine executive cities (Seoul's Songpa-gu and Eunpyeong-gu, Siheung City in Gyeonggi Province, Dangjin City in South Chungcheong Province, Suncheon City in South Jeolla Province, Hongcheon County in Gangwon Province, Yeonje-gu in Busan, and Gongju City in South Chungcheong Province) and 22 member cities gathered to discuss the operation of the Innovation Education Local Government Council for this year.

Following a settlement of accounts for last year's projects, discussions took place regarding the sharing and direction of all 2021 council projects, including mayors' forums, member city policy modeling platform projects, and policy briefing sessions.

The 2021 Innovation Education Local Government Council will operate ▲regular general assemblies in the first and second half linked with conferences and panel discussions ▲policy briefing sessions for the implementation of educational agendas proposed by each local government ▲a policy modeling platform project that supports member cities' excellent policies to be adopted by each local government.

Additionally, the council will operate 'Innovation Seowon,' a local government leaders' educational research group that is a key project pursued by Chairman Kwak Sang-wook, and will conduct year-round local government leaders' research meetings that present new visions for regional education through lectures and discussions by experts in each field of education.

Various activities of the 2021 Innovation Education Local Government Council can be found on the council's website (http://kaei.kr).