Under the revised Normal School Order in 1944, prefectural youth teacher training schools that were training teachers for youth schools became youth normal schools, government-established educational institutions at the level of vocational schools.
1944年の師範教育令改正により、青年学校の教員養成をしていた都道（庁）府県立の青年学校教員養成所が、官立の、専門学校レベルの教育機関である青年師範学校になった。