Education Predicament of Migrant Workers' Children Challenging Education Equality

Increase of migrant labors brings about education predicament of migrant workers' children. A state statistical data indicates that there are about 7 to 8 million migrant children and over 22million children have been left behind in rural villages when their parents seek employment in rural environs which results in that fact that lack of care of left behind children in rural villages and difficulty of migrant children in urban environs. Education predicament of migrant workers' children severely challenges education equality concept in China's compulsory education law for the following reasons: people's permanent misunderstanding of the importance of the migrant worker phenomenon; the system separating rural population from urban population; imperfect legal systems; low quality and weak sense of legal protection of migrant labors. The relevant countermeasures are as follows: allowing migrant labors' children to be educated in urban areas; implementing the system of compulsory education subsidy cards; switching household registration school entrance to residence school entrance; bringing education of migrant workers' children into the system to assess urban schools; government's favorable policies toward schools for migrant workers' children.