Early and pre-school education will see major changes

The Georgian Dream (GD) majority lawmakers have initiated a bill that envisages regulating of early and pre-school education thorough the country.  

The draft law also offers amendments in the 15 existing laws for to ensure quality early and pre-school education, updated inclusive programmes  and prevention of moral and physical violence on minors. 

According to the authors of the bill Eka Beselia, Gedevan Popkhadze and Otar Chrdileli, the draft covered all the aspects of the direction and was in line with European standards. 

The draft specifies how many children should be in groups of an early educational institution, how many teachers should care about them, what would be the roles of local and central governments, as well as various state bodies in this regard. 

The draft also suggests inclusive education for all minors, taking their mental, physical, racial, gender, religious, social, emotional, linguistic and other backgrounds into account. The bill prohibits any type of physical, psychological and other violence on kids. In case of such facts an aggressor   will face a legal accountability,” the authors defined. 

The draft law also read that parents would be actively involved in the state educational chain, meaning that special councils will be formed at early and pre-school educational institutions consisting of 7 members; five of them would be parents. 

The Parliament will discuss the draft law at a spring session.