Czech government slashes school computer resources budget

Czech government officials have announced that US$46.4 million promised to the Education Ministry for 2007 won’t be coming. The money was to go toward improving the availability and quality of Internet and computer resources in state schools. The news came as a shock to the ministry, which called the whole mess “unbearable” and “unacceptable.” Dana Krupičková, principal at the ZŠ Libčická school in Prague 8, however, said this isn’t the first time education funding has been slashed unexpectedly. Krupičková said her school had been planning to obtain four more computers this year. The school also had to cut its computer–training program for teachers, she said. Read more at The Prague Post online.