The budget for 2021 envisages funds in the amount of 3,000,000 BAM for this purpose.
The Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republika Srpska, i.e., the Government of the Republika Srpska, provided free textbooks for all first and second grade elementary school students for the 2021/2022 school year. Also, for students who are winners of national competitions in the school year 2020/2021 as well as for all students from the third to the ninth grade of primary schools who are third and next child after from a family with three or more children. As it was announced from the competent ministry, the budget for 2021 envisages funds in the amount of 3,000,000 BAM for this purpose, BHRT reports.
“According to current data, free textbooks will be provided for about 9,000 first-graders and about 9,140 second-graders for the school year 2021/2022, while a total of around 10,620 students who are third or next child from families with three or more children,” said the Ministry of Education. Until today, in the period 2007 until the school year 2020/2021, the Government of Republika Srpska allocated about 15.5 million BAM for free textbooks for all students of the first and second grade of primary school and other categories of students to whom the Ministry provides free textbooks.
The Ministry of Education and Culture reminds that every school year from 2007 provides free textbooks for all students of the first and second grade of primary schools, and from the school year 2019/2020 the Ministry provides free textbooks for all students winners of national competitions in the previous school year. From the school year 2020/2021, the Ministry also provides free textbooks for students who are the third and next child of family with three or more children. In addition to that, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Ministry of Family, Youth and Sports has been providing free textbooks since 2007 for primary school students with excellent grades from third to ninth grade who come from families with four or more children.
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