By Sylvester W. Korwor, Bong County Correspondent
GBARNGA May 20 (LINA) – The National Principal Association Bong County Chapter has welcomed the implementation of the 2011 Education Reform Act with a call to improve school infrastructures and reactivation of the County’s School Board across the country.
Speaking in Gbarnga Tuesday May 19, 2026 the association county chapter headed by Mr. Philip Lepolu Mulbah advanced the improvement of school administrators to avoid school dropout and the reactivation of county school boards that will help government directly roll out policies of the Ministry.
According to the association, the enforcement of teachers licensing before they are qualified to teach in the classroom is welcoming, noting, however, that several factors including activating the county school board, empowerment of county and district education officers for adequate monitoring and supervision must be addressed.
The association has endorsed the pronouncement made by Liberia’s Education Minister Dr. Marlay Jaso Jallah to enforce the portion of the 2011 Reform Act that calls for teachers licensing, adding that it will give value and dignity to the teaching profession.
Under chapter 2.1 of the Ministry of Education Teachers Code of Conduct 2014 (qualification and eligibility criteria), the education reform art (ERA) defines qualification and eligibility criteria for teachers and school administrators in Liberia.
According to the ERA of 2011, all teachers and school administrators to be eligible to hold the position herein enumerated, shall be licensed to teach and shall meet the teacher code of conduct requirements affecting senior secondary school instructors.
The association further wants the Ministry to give the enforcement what they called ” a window period” for private school to train their teachers in teacher colleges in order to avoid school dropout.
The association stressed the need to be definite about the window period for school administrators to fast track the upgrading of their teachers status. “Past Ministers have made similar pronouncement but didn’t implement it,” they said.
Meanwhile, the National Teacher Association Bong County Chapter has called on government to improve the school infrastructures across the country, noting that the enforcement will lead to closure of substandard private schools thereby giving the public schools the opportunity to have space to contain those students.