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Bulgarian education and welfare reform updates

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Bulgarian ~~child welfare and~~ education ~~reforms~~ and welfare reform updates

Bulgaria ~~continues to navigate~~ is undergoing significant reforms in ~~child welfare, education, and juvenile justice. The Ministry of~~ its education system following disappointing PISA assessment results. Education and Science has previously proposed standardizing early childhood development tracking and enhancing support for students with special educational needs (SEN) through a unified national methodology and revised roles for resource teachers. Building on these efforts, Deputy Minister ~~Tanya Pancheva~~ Georgi Valchev has announced ~~plans~~ that the current ‘money follows the student’ funding model will be replaced within the next year. This shift aims to ~~establish~~ move away from a ~~broad working group, including school directors and social partners,~~ system that forces small schools to ~~discuss mechanisms~~ struggle for ~~funding educational activities. A key component of the government’s program is the aim to raise~~ survival, instead creating a stable environment where teacher ~~salaries to 125% of the national average wage, alongside strategies to retain young professionals within the system. The ministry~~ status is ~~also focusing~~ not solely dependent on ~~increasing~~ enrollment numbers. President Rumen Radev has designated these reforms as a top government priority, emphasizing a shift from student quantity to educational ~~funds while ensuring more efficient and transparent allocation. In~~ quality. Proposed measures include the ~~realm~~ introduction of ~~early childhood development,~~ a ‘zero grade’ to prepare children lacking proficiency in the ~~Union of School Leaders has expressed support for changes~~ Bulgarian language before they enter first grade, as well as updating curricula and textbooks to ~~Ordinance No. 5, which introduces~~ be more accessible. Addressing a ~~unified toolkit for tracking child development~~ crisis highlighted by ~~measuring both knowledge and skills. Recently, Minister~~ PISA data—which placed Bulgaria at the bottom of ~~Education and Science Prof. Galin Tsokov confirmed that~~ the ~~delegated budget model for school education will remain in place, citing its effectiveness~~ EU in ~~school management. However, he noted that the distribution formula requires adjustments to prevent negative practices,~~ reading, mathematics, and science—the ministry is also tackling systemic issues such as ~~the inflation~~ outdated curricula and rote memorization. To combat discipline challenges, where 41% of ~~grades to retain students. Regarding higher education, legislative changes to the Higher Education Act now restrict state scholarships to~~ students ~~in full-time, state-funded programs. This move follows~~ report peer discipline issues, the ministry is considering a ~~Supreme Administrative Court ruling~~ system of rewards and ~~aims to correct legal inaccuracies while ensuring the state can maintain necessary specialist numbers through regulated state plans. In~~ sanctions. This may include a ~~subsequent development, Education Minister Georgi Valchev announced plans~~ personal development card to ~~reform~~ track social skills and the ~~national education system to address poor PISA results.~~ creation of a new specialist role focused on student upbringing and personal development.

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