Schools to suffer under more budget cuts

Aug 19, 2009
Staff and wire reports

RIGA - The Education and Science Ministry’s budget for 2010 will be 15 million lats (21.4 million euros) short of planned spending, says Minister of Education and Science Tatjana Koke (Greens and Farmers Union), reports news agency LETA. “If this amount is not allotted to the ministry next year, it will have to consider which functions would have to cut,” she said. Koke explained that the ministry’s budget for this year was already subject to cuts of 186 million lats from the 2008 sp ...

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