Riga. File photoMOSCOW, June 7The Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia approved amendments to the laws on education, providing for the transition of all education in the country to the only state language — Latvian — within three years, the press service of the Latvian government reports. «Today, June 7, 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers approved amendments to the on Education» and the Law on General Education», which provide for the transition to teaching only in the Latvian language within three years,» the government website said in a statement. language in preschool education and in the first, fourth and seventh grades of the basic school.From September 1, 2024, students of the second, fifth and eighth grades will start teaching in the state language, and from September 1, 2025, the third, sixth and ninth grades will join. Now students in grades 1-6 are required to study at least 50% of the curriculum in Latvian, and students for grades 7-9 — at least 80%. «Today we are correcting the system that existed 30 years after independence, in which children were divided according to the language used in the family. These changes should have been made back in the 1990s. If this is not corrected today, the possible consequences could be very serious. I hope that the Seimas will not hesitate either, and together we will be able to adopt these amendments within this period,» the press service quoted the Minister of Education and Science of Latvia, Anita Muizhniece, as saying. It is noted that at the stage of primary education, students from national minorities will be able to language and cultural history of minorities at will. There are about 1.8 million people in Latvia. About 40% of them are Russian speakers. In Latvia, one state language is Latvian. Russian has the status of a foreign language.
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