Education budget cuts

Melania Mandas Vergu comments on the cuts in Romania's education budget: "For eleven months we've been almost deafened by the praise for Tarceanu's Cabinet - those patrons of Romanian schools. There wasn't a speech which didn't mention the fact that for the first time since 1989, education was receiving adequate - or even ample - funding. But yesterday's government session put an end to any hope of consistent political action in this area: the education budget was cut by 130 million euros in one go. ... Of this sum that was stolen from our schools yesterday, 100 million euros were to be spent on didactic material. In concrete terms this means each school would have been able to buy new blackboards, lockers for sport equipment, maps and materials for chemistry and physics lessons, microscopes, CDs or other necessary materials. But these little things - which account for the quality of lessons in other European countries - are dismissed as frivolities and luxuries here in Romania."

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