Six Chisinau schools will test a new money management system

Six schools in Chisinau expressed their intention to test a new procedure for managing money proposed by the municipality. Until the middlle of next week, the managers of the given institutions will submit applications to the General Division of Education, Youth and Sport or to the head of the mayor general's administration, Info-Prim Neo reports. The switch by the Chisinau schools and kindergartens to financial autonomy was discussed in a meeting of Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and the heads of education institutions on Saturday. The local authorities propose that the money allocated for repairing schools and kindergartens should be managed by the heads of the institutions, withiut involving the sector education divisions. The money will be distributed according to the number of students and the buildings' state. According to Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, this money management system is implemented in Georgia, where it proved its effectiveness. Every instituton will hold by itself public procurement tender contests and will bear responsibility for distributing the money. The mayor is convinced that this way the schools will tend to save money. The spending on education this year is 939 million lei, which is almost half of the budget revenues.