Elena Cernei: “My School” – a project that teaches you how to make your school better
Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.
Elena Cernei, director of the “Onisifor Ghibu” Lyceum in Chișinău and a former Deputy Minister of Education, describes what her school learned from taking part in the “My School” project in 2014-2015, especially about managing budgets, transparency and involving pupils and parents in decisions.
Cernei says the project taught her to manage the budget actively and to communicate openly with the community. Pupils took part in an optional strategy course and a public hearing, where they raised issues such as sanitary facilities and school meals. Funding is now per pupil: teacher salaries for one class cost about MDL 250,000 a year, against roughly MDL 10,000 received per pupil, so classes need at least 30 pupils. The average class size rose from 26.8 in 2013 to 30.80 in 2017, and the teaching staff grew from 95 to 112. In 2015 the school renovated four modern-language classrooms from its own budget.
She recommends the project even though it brings no extra money: it teaches how to improve a school. The interview was conducted by Mihaela Gherasim of Radio Free Europe within a project implemented by Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” with World Bank support.
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