Eng. Hazem El-Ashmouny, Governor of Al Sharkia, received Mr. Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, in his office at the General Diwan of the Governorate, to follow up on preparations for the new academic year 2024/2025 AD, in the governorate and review the mechanisms and solutions that will be implemented by the various educational administrations to address the challenges of student density, fill the deficit in teachers and attract students to schools. Abdel Latif& El-Ashmouny held a meeting with a number of members of the House of Representatives in the governorate, to review the ministry's vision to address the current challenges in the educational system, and the solutions that have been reached. The Minister expressed his happiness with this meeting, to clarify visions, stressing the importance of cooperation between all parties to achieve the desired goals that work to advance the educational system in a manner befitting the Egyptian student. During the meeting, the Minister reviewed the Ministry's vision for dealing with the most prominent challenges, including the shortage of teachers, student densities in classrooms, attracting students to schools, and restructuring secondary education, noting that Egypt has the largest pre-university education system with more than 25 million students, and there is a need for more than 250,000 new classes and approximately 469,000 teachers to fill the teacher shortage in various grades, stressing that the Ministry's vision came from field visits to more than 10 governorates, and meetings with directors of educational departments to discuss mechanisms for confronting the most important challenges, in addition to review these solutions by specialized experts, as a team of researchers from the Ministry's research centers conducted a study on the top 20 countries that are leaders in the field of education. Eng. Hazem El-Ashmouny expressed his keenness to hold periodic meetings with members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to discuss all the problems that citizens suffer from and to address all their needs in all service and development fields, especially with regard to the education file, praising the importance of this meeting, which provides a wide scope to discuss any challenges facing the educational process and to find urgent solutions to them in a way that reflects on the public interest of our students in the various stages of education. For their part, the honorable members of parliament praised the plan announced by the ministry, which was widely appreciated by the Egyptian people, stressing the importance of cooperation with the ministry to advance the educational process. They also expressed their full support for the ministry in implementing this ambitious vision, to improve the quality of education and build a generation capable of facing the challenges of the future.