English
A hundred new school buses are to be delivered to Ukrainian schools under the World Bank-funded Equal Access to Quality Education in Ukraine Project. Organization of transportation of students to and from schools should promote equal access to quality education for rural children. This particularly concerns middle and senior high schools. They must be fitted with study rooms for chemistry, physical, and biological classes as well as school workshops and electronic classrooms. As practice elsewhere in the world shows, to provide such facilities in each village is impossible. So an issue of reorganization and optimization of the rural school network arises. Given the transportation of school students, a more rational network of education institutions could be in place: a system of education institutions of different levels to which the organized transportation of students from villages round where there are no schools, should be ensured. This will be also conducive to the effective use of financial resources, the skill pool of education workers, improvement of the education institutions network and establishment of conditions for every child to get equal access to quality education. Among the buses, seven are specialized which will help provide appropriate conditions in rural areas for handicapped children to receive full secondary education.
