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Fifty-five primary schools are transformed into unified from the new school year 2017/18. Thus, on September 15, the first bell will also ring for 8th-grade students who will be trained in professional classes.

This became clear after the last orders of Minister Valchev were issued on June 9th, through which he affirmed as unified the schools proposed by the respective municipalities. They can be included in the state-run admission for the new school year, which was extended until June 15th. Unified Schools can be established in the coming months as well, but they will only be eligible for eighth grade from 2018 on.

Most of the approved unified schools are in the villages - 48, five are in cities and two are in the capital. All of them have been proposed by a decision of the respective municipal council, having received an opinion - positive or negative - by the Regional department of education.

Amalipe Center has actively supported schools that want to be transformed into unified by their much-needed information and advocacy. On the one hand, we published and disseminated important missing information that encouraged schools to try the transformation and guided them how to do it specifically. The articles of Amalipe were opened hundreds of times, shared on Facebook, reprinted in "Az Buky", "Dnevnik" and "Capital". They reached schools and encouraged them to try this difficult and "unknown" process. At the proposal of the organization, the Ministry of Education and Science changed the Ordinance 10 of 1.09.2016 by extending the state plan admission: otherwise the majority of the unified schools would have no new classes for the 2017/2018 school year..

Twenty schools from the "Every student will be a winner" network succeed in their effort to become unified. Congratulations, colleagues! Success in the effort to ensure full range and quality education up to 10th grade! We will be with you in this effort!