The Ministry of Education announced the continuation of its workforce restructuring program in schools, effective Sunday, October 4, 2026. This initiative follows directives from the Minister of Education, Engineer Jalal Al-Tabtabai, aimed at achieving a balanced distribution of staff based on the actual needs of schools. This will ensure that qualified personnel are allocated to the areas of greatest need, enhance the stability of school operations, and prioritize the student's well-being and educational needs.

In a statement, the Ministry emphasized that administrative reforms in the education sector are proceeding along two parallel and complementary tracks. The first involves redistributing teachers among schools according to the actual need for specific educational specializations. The second entails reorganizing and assigning supervisory positions to align with the new organizational structure of school administrations and the approved job titles. This process is based on a comprehensive review of workforce data and its current distribution across schools.

The Ministry explained that these measures followed a series of meetings and reviews that addressed the distribution of teaching and supervisory staff. These reviews revealed disparities in the number of teachers and some supervisory positions between schools due to previous organizational issues. This necessitated a reorganization of the distribution according to unified criteria related to each school's actual needs, student enrollment, classroom capacity, and the requirements of the approved organizational structure.

The Ministry indicated that a review of the actual data on teaching staff numbers in schools showed a clear discrepancy in staff distribution between some schools compared to their actual needs, while other schools had a need for the same specializations. Among the cases identified by the Ministry, one middle school had 66 Islamic education teachers, while the actual need was only 11, and another had 22 art teachers, while the actual need was only 4.

The data also revealed a similar disparity in one kindergarten, where there were 30 teachers for only four classes. This underscores the importance of reallocating teaching staff to better align with the actual needs of each school, ensuring that available talent is directed to the areas of greatest need and achieving a balance between schools.

The Ministry of Education explained that, in light of these indicators, the current phase of the first track involves redistributing teachers among schools according to each school's actual needs across various educational specializations, taking into account the number of classes, students, and capacity. This aims to achieve a balance in the number of teaching staff and optimize the use of available personnel, paving the way for the second phase of the plan to address the surplus.