Babiš's Sparkling Dispute with Plaga. Why the State Is Sending 20 Billion to Private and Church Schools
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The reduction of subsidies for private and church schools, which is being promoted by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO), may not be profitable for the state. School principals warn that without state support, many of them would close. Last school year, 135,000 students attended non-public primary and secondary schools and another 17,000 children attended kindergartens. Many of them because there were no more places for them in the public ones.
A dispute over money for private and church schools opened between Education Minister Robert Plaga (for ANO) and Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) during negotiations on the state budget for next year. Plaga claims that the proposal lacks approximately three billion crowns for expenses that his department must cover under the current wording of the laws. Babiš, on the other hand, publicly asked why the state sends around 20 billion crowns a year…
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) caused a stir among private school principals. He suggested billion-dollar cuts in subsidies for private education. School principals immediately told him that such a plan would be liquidating for some of them. Denis Doksanský, an MP from Babiš's ANO movement and the head of a private school, also spoke out: "I will give him all the necessary information from practice," Doksanský told the daily Aktuálně.cz.
Former minister Petr Hladík from the KDU-ČSL proposed that the Chamber of Deputies discuss the issue of funding church and private schools. This was also supported by former party leader Marek Výborný. The impetus for this was the words of Prime Minister and ANO leader Andrej Babiš, who this week after a cabinet meeting attacked his government's Minister of Education, Robert Plaga, and wondered why money was being spent on private and church sch…
The coalition is fighting over the financing of church and private schools. According to the budget proposal, they could lose three billion crowns from year to year, or about fifteen percent of the funds. Education Minister Robert Plaga (for ANO) rejects this. He points out that these are expenses stipulated by law. Finance Minister Alena Schillerová (ANO) wants a systemic change. According to school representatives, the withdrawal of subsidies …
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