Summary:
As part of the reorganization of the country’s educational system, the federal Ministry of Education intends to involve minorities in formulating curricula for education in minority languages, as well as for other subjects such as history. However, the ministry intends to work with delegates from the minorities’ National Councils; none of the National Councils have been formed as of yet.

Biljana Stojanović, advisory to the minister and head of the Division for Creating a Plan and rogram of Preschool and Elementary Education, comments that the ministry wants to include minority groups in the process, but the minorities and the Ministry of National Minorities must first do their share of the work. She urged that the Councils be formed as soon as possible, so that “our children do not suffer for our interests.”

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