# 学校教育法 / School Education Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) - Law: 学校教育法 (School Education Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二十六号 - English title "School Education Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四十二条 (Article 42) — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2026-06-17 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四十二条 art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42 **第一項** 小学校は、文部科学大臣の定めるところにより当該小学校の教育活動その他の学校運営の状況について評価を行い、その結果に基づき学校運営の改善を図るため必要な措置を講ずることにより、その教育水準の向上に努めなければならない。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42/par-1 Elementary schools must perform evaluations of the state of school management of the relevant elementary schools, including elementary school educational activities as provided by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and must endeavor to increase their educational standards by taking necessary measures to improve school management based on those results. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 地方公共団体の設置する小学校は、前項の措置を講ずるに当たつては、当該措置が、当該地方公共団体の教育委員会が定めた公立の義務教育諸学校等の教育職員の給与等に関する特別措置法（昭和四十六年法律第七十七号）第八条第一項に規定する業務量管理・健康確保措置実施計画に適合するものとなるようにしなければならない。 art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42/par-2 An elementary school established by a local government must, in taking the measures referred to in the preceding paragraph, ensure that those measures conform to the workload management and health securing measures implementation plan established by the board of education of the relevant local government, as prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Act on Special Measures concerning Salaries and Other Conditions for Education Personnel of Public Compulsory Education Schools, etc. (Act No. 77 of 1971). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-42/par-2: 前項 → 学校教育法 第四十二条第一項 (Article 42, paragraph (1)), art-42/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42/par-1 - art-42/par-2: 公立の義務教育諸学校等の教育職員の給与等に関する特別措置法（昭和四十六年法律第七十七号）第八条第一項 → e-Gov law 346AC0000000077, 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 学校教育法 第二十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-28/par-1 - 学校教育法 第四十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-42/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-42/par-2 - 学校教育法 第四十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49/par-1 - 学校教育法 第四十九条の八第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-49-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-49-8/par-1 - 学校教育法 第六十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-62/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-62/par-1 - 学校教育法 第七十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-70/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-70/par-1 - 学校教育法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-82/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百三十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-133/par-1 - 学校教育法 第百三十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/school-education-act/art-134/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000026/art-134/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 学校教育法 — the text in force from 2026-06-17 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000026/20260617_508AC0000000037), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — School Education Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4743/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5, corrected on review by claude-opus-5-5 — Machine translation corrected on review, batch school-education-act-20261019T141625-001, translated 2026-10-19 - This site's parser, version 210 — 学校教育法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19