April 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bulgaria: Secondary Education: Dnevnik: A Peace Corps volunteer has drafted a $6,200 project that will enable 33 local schools to replace their blackboards with white dry erase boards, retiring forever the white chalk that has always been used in Bulgarian classrooms. Once again, the thrifty solution proposed by the Peace Corps volunteer shows how a little inventiveness can go a long way to plug funding shortfalls
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April 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bulgaria: Secondary Education: Dnevnik: A Peace Corps volunteer has drafted a $6,200 project that will enable 33 local schools to replace their blackboards with white dry erase boards, retiring forever the white chalk that has always been used in Bulgarian classrooms. Once again, the thrifty solution proposed by the Peace Corps volunteer shows how a little inventiveness can go a long way to plug funding shortfalls
A Peace Corps volunteer has drafted a $6,200 project that will enable 33 local schools to replace their blackboards with white dry erase boards, retiring forever the white chalk that has always been used in Bulgarian classrooms. Once again, the thrifty solution proposed by the Peace Corps volunteer shows how a little inventiveness can go a long way to plug funding shortfalls
A Peace Corps volunteer has drafted a $6,200 project that will enable 33 local schools to replace their blackboards with white dry erase boards, retiring forever the white chalk that has always been used in Bulgarian classrooms. Once again, the thrifty solution proposed by the Peace Corps volunteer shows how a little inventiveness can go a long way to plug funding shortfalls
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Dnevnik
Bulgaria
April 12, 2005
A Peace Corps volunteer has drafted a $6,200 project that will enable 33 local schools to replace their blackboards with white dry erase boards, retiring forever the white chalk that has always been used in Bulgarian classrooms. Once again, the thrifty solution proposed by the Peace Corps volunteer shows how a little inventiveness can go a long way to plug funding shortfalls.
With the politicians warming up for the upcoming general elections, the education sector has become a major selling point for their policy platforms. The New Times parliamentary faction conditioned its support for the 2005 budget on the provision of an additional 100 mln levs for the educational system.
The ruling NDSV is shipping thousands of PCs to schools around the country and ordered free milk and scones for the first four school grades. The left-wing BSP has also promised to funnel sizeable amounts to the educational system. Without the pressure of running for office, the Peace Corps volunteer achieves something more practical than any pre-election hype ever could: for a trivial amount of money, that creative individual trouble-shoots a concrete problem. And that kind of original thinking can only be the result of years of being encouraged to value inventiveness, industry and focus over funding. All these formative elements are sadly missing from the educational process. That, of course, does not prevent the people in the educational system from demanding more and more money to throw at the problem.
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