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• Minister of Education again met with activists against language reform in ethnic minority schools

Latvijas Avize reports about a repeated meeting of the Minister of Education Ina Druviete with activists against language reform in ethnic minority schools Vladimirs Buzajevs, Aleksandrs Gilmans and representative of Russian parents Konstantins Cepusins. V. Buzajevs asserted that if proportion of education in Latvian language in minority schools grows it will harm quality of education. The Minister Druviete did not agree with such assertion, but both parts agreed that it is necessary to conduct researches about the impact of the language reform 2004 in ethnic minority schools and to compare results of examination between students of Latvian language and ethnic minority schools. It is also necessary to check the proportion of ethnic minority students who received scholarship in state funded higher education establishments during past several years. Yesterday, the protestors of the language reform planned for 2018 held another protest action.