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• Igors Pimenovs: government should pay special attention to ethnic minority schools while optimising school system in Latvia

Telegraf reports that the MPs held a meeting with representatives of various NGOs. The MP and representative of the Latvian Association for Support of Schools with Russian Language of Instruction (LAShOR) Igors Pimenovs considers that ethnic minorities are among vulnerable groups of residents, therefore, the government should pay special attention to ethnic minority schools while optimising school system. Mr. Pimenovs considers that national minorities are no longer able to express the demand for education in their language because parents are forced to send their children to Latvian language schools because they feel local authorities do no protect them. Representatives of LAShOR complained that no one cares whether those children, who are studying in a language other than their family language, are able to fulfill their need for self-expression and whether such self-expression is supported.