The bill prepared by Education Minister Ondrej Liska (Greens, SZ), which deputies are to assess now, will also cancel the minimum number of pupils in small schools and facilitate conditions for obtaining another certificate of apprenticeship and for the recognition of certificates from foreign schools. Parents have to pay for a child during the first two years in Czech kindergartens, that is from the age of three to five.
The pre-school year has been free since 2005 when then Education Minister Petra Buzkova (Social Democrats, CSSD) cancelled Quake memorial ...
Czech soccer hooligans may be punished during match at stadium ... the respective fees. Liska pointed out that this step did not prove successful as it did not attract kids from low-income families to kindergartens. The ministry says in its document that the free-of-charge year in a kindergarten only resulted in rise in the number of children whose school attendance was postponed by one year and packed kindergartens. The amendment to the school law also extends pre-school classes to special schools as well, which would, for instance, help mentally disabled children integrate into school. The new school law that took effect in September 2004 primarily introduced framework educational programmes. It has been amended several times.
(Ceske Noviny)
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