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The document, drafted by the Ministry of Education and Science, approves the allocation of subsidies from the 2013 federal budget to regional budgets for implementing the measures of the federal targeted programme Education Development for 2011-2015 and achieving strategic objectives of the national educational initiative Our New School in all Russian Regions.
The subsidies are to be allocated to 36 Russian regions, who will be selected on a competitive basis. Calculating the size of these subsidies to the regional budgets has been carried out in accordance with the Regulations for Allocating and Distributing Federal Budget Subsidies to Support the Implementation of Measures of the Federal Targeted Programme Education Development for 2011-2015, which was approved by Government Resolution No. 61 of February 7, 2011.
The subsidies are to be allocated on condition that the regional budgets have enough allocations for implementing measures from regional education development programmes in terms of modernising municipal preschool education systems and creating education system models that provide a modern quality of secondary education, as well as state public models of education management.
The implementation of the resolution’s provisions will help create favourable conditions for the modernisation of municipal preschool education systems, the expansion of modern state public models of education management in the Russian Federation and of education systems that provide a modern quality of secondary education.
The document was reviewed and approved at a Government meeting on July 15, 2013.