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New members of the government will address the issue on the prospects of gymnasium in Kohtla-Järve in Estonia, Interfax news agency reports. The current cabinet could not decide on the future of the school.
The parties that will win the parliamentary elections, which will take place in two weeks, will create new ruling coalition.
The gymnasium in Kohtla-Järve will become a kind of prototype of the future model of Russian school. Most of the population there is Russian-speaking.
There are three options today. Radical nationalists demand that the upper secondary school should be translated entirely into Estonian. 40% of subjects in the gymnasiums are in Russian, the rest are in Estonian.
The ruling Center Party suggests to establish a transitional period, giving the students an opportunity to prepare for 100% Estonian-language education.
There is another option. They offer to open a branch of the state gymnasium at the existing educational institution, where teaching will be entirely Estonian. In this case, students will be able to choose the language.
As Russkiy Mir reported, there are more than 70 secondary schools in Estonia, where students can study in Russian, and one fifth of all pupils in the country study there. The number of Russian schools has been declining in recent years.
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