The Beijing Haidian District Educational Committee recently banned more than 30 private schools established for migrant workers' children, leaving over 10,000 students without a place to study, the People's Daily reported Tuesday.

In a room of a residential area near Taizhouwu, Haidian District, Hebei migrant worker Chen Fu is anxious.The Xinli elementary school where his ten-year-old daughter Chen Jingxin studies, has been closed.

Another school Hongxing, Haidian's largest private school for migrant workers' children with more than 1,500 students, also received a notice from the educational committee, which says the school "has no eligible license, and the facilities cannot meet the requirements for running a school."

According to the educational committee, an eligible school should have a startup fund of 1.5 million yuan and a 200-meter-long annular raceway. Chiefly financed by donations and with little, if any governmental investment, most private schools for migrant workers' children cannot meet these demands.

Xie Zhenqing, the principal of Hongxing School, said the school had applied dozens of times to the Haidian District Educational Committee for a license, but all attempts failed because they didn't have enough money to improve the campus.

Founded in 1993, Shehuizhong Elementary School, which has the longest history among schools for migrant workers' children in Haidian, is also on the list to be shut down. Shehuizhong has moved ten times because of the classrooms being dismantled to construct new buildings, according to principal Zhang Baogui.

Xingzhi School, one of the only two schools to survive, would not have been able to bring the school up to standard if it hadn't been for "aid from the government and attention from society," principal Yi Benyao told the paper.