Abstract
The purpose of this article is to provide a suggestion to the current system by paying attention to pre-establishment period of the Municipal-Financed Teachers System. Prior case to this system employed original teachers through the budget of cities, towns and villages. In my attempt to provide recommendation to the current system, I focused on the prior case by clarifying its purpose. A-town is the primary case examined in this article. A-town has employed original teachers with the town's budget since 1977. The following points about A-town were generated. First, the teacher whose salary was paid by town had lower salary. If the salary is low, the policy depends on the teachers' technique and enthusiasm. Second, the application of the policy was flexible, but it can be pointed out that the possibility of the selection and placement of the teachers may have been unfair. Because the teacher was employed through "the network" among the teachers, some biases could arise. Third, I put forward a proposal to the current system, the point being that at that time, the Prefectural Subsidies for Teachers' Compensation System was not able to support the situation when the number of the children sharply decreased. From this analysis, the following findings were clarified. The previous cases have the same structure as the current Municipal-Financed Teachers System. The examination of these cases leads to a suggestion to improve the current system. It is necessary to continue this type of research in future.
