650 000 pupils to have school textbooks for free
08.04.2013
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public schools and 650 thousand pupils shall receive school textbooks free of
charge for the school year 2013-2014. Today, Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili
announced the news regarding free textbooks at Public School 145 while meeting
with the pupils of this school.
This is the first precedent of free textbooks for pupils. The State shall purchase textbooks for the pupils of all public schools.
Each family had to pay approximately 100-160 GEL for textbooks annually. In case if there were two schoolchildren in a family, the expenses could reach 200-320 GEL. With the initiative of the Ministry, school textbooks will be available for every family.