38 2) Questions 180. What is the government’s plan to expand support that would help the children from single parent families sustain their adequate standard of living? 181. Among the welfare facilities for single parent families, how many of them can be used for adolescent single parent families? Please provide detailed information on this. G. Education, Leisure, and Cultural Activities (Arts. 28-31) Issue 50. The Right to Education 1) Current status 182. The government only recognizes schools that received accreditation in accordance with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as educational institutions. According to the government, about 50,000 to 70,000 students discontinue their studies every year and about 390,000 out of 6.67 million school-aged children are considered out-of-school children. Children that do not attend school and students who attend alternative schools, which did not receive accreditation from the government, are all considered as out-of-school children. 183. To support out-of-school children, the government established a total of 206 K-Dream Youth Support Centers as of 2018 to provide care services such as counseling, support for school qualification/entrance examinations, job experience and career training programs, self-reliance support, and health examination, etc. However, the out-of-school children receive far less support compared to students in public education and challenged with insufficient budget. The 2018 budget for K-Dream Youth Support Centers is about KRW 24.6 billion, which is KRW 63,000 per out-of-school children. This number is a big difference compared to Korea’s public education spending per student, $9,873, as indicated in the 2017 OECD Education Index. 184. To ensure the right to education of out-of-school children, the NHRCK has advised the Minister of Education to allow out-of-school children to return to their affiliated schools and raise objections and receive consideration under the process if principals refuse to take the children back. In the case of emergency situations where out-of-school children need immediate protection from domestic violence, the NHRCK has advised that same rule should be applied to the out-of-school children staying at youth protection agencies as the children being protected at Child Protection Agencies approved attendance of the school and not be marked as absence from school.