BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ukraine has pledged not to close Romanian language schools under a new education law that has caused alarm in Romania, Russia and Hungary, Romania’s foreign minister said Friday.
Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said Ukraine had promised: “no Romanian school will be closed … and no teachers in a Romanian school will be fired.”
Melescanu said students would be educated in their native tongue and also learn Ukrainian language, literature, history and geography.
Ukraine’s new education law, which was passed last month, specifies that Ukrainian will be the main language used in schools, rolling back an option for lessons to …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
