The parliamentary platform “For Moldova”, which includes the MPs of the Shor Party, considers the current student-centered formula for funding schools is discriminatory and proposes amending the Education Code so as to modify this formula, IPN reports.

“If there are fewer students in the class, this does not make the school contract and eventually consume less for heat. There will be used as many lamps in the classroom when there are 15 students there or when there are 40 students there. These subtleties weren’t taken into account when agreeing the new formula for funding the general education institutions and this is regrettable,” MP Elena Bacalu stated in a press briefing.

“For Moldova” suggests that the general education institutions should be funded according to the principle “Money follows physical educational space and student” under which the funds allocated for the physical educational space and for a students are transferred to the institution where the student studies.

The Government decided to fund the primary and secondary education institutions according to the standard cost per student in 2014.