ILLEGAL ADJUSTMENT?In response to concerns, the K-12 education administration director said the alterations were entirely legal, and the changes would proceed on time

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 20, 2015
By: Rachel Lin and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

A group of civic organizations yesterday announced that today it would form an alliance to protest the Ministry of Education’s handling of the high-school social sciences curriculum and the 12-year national education plan which they alleged was designed in a “black-box,” or non-transparent, manner.

As the Taipei High Administrative Court in February ruled against the ministry’s decision to implement a controversial curriculum adjustment — which the ministry implemented anyway — the groups said the ministry should attempt to make information more transparent and easily accessible to the public.     [FULL  STORY]