My School: The Public Hearing at School, an Exercise in Community Involvement and Accountability
Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.
A public hearing held at the Costuleni gymnasium in Ungheni district, Moldova, brought together parents, pupils, teachers, local officials and development partners to discuss the school's budget and problems. It was the school's first such hearing, organised under the “My School” project, which involves 20 schools nationwide.
The gymnasium has 323 pupils, and MDL 10,987 was spent per pupil in 2016. Participants learned how the budget was spent and listed problems: no heating on the third floor, outdoor toilets because water pressure is too weak to supply the indoor ones, and a lack of internet and computers. Pupils also asked for new changing rooms, which would cost almost MDL 270,000.
After one and a half hours of debate, district president Ludmila Guzun promised to co-finance some projects. Mayor Sorin Gurău pointed to MDL 120,000 planned for next year's repairs and pledged local support. All proposals will be analysed and a priority list announced at the general parents' meeting. The material was produced under a project implemented by Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” with World Bank support.
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