Good evening. Here is the Tuesday, June 25 edition of Today in Slovakia - the main news of the day in less than five minutes. In the village of Rakúsy near Kežmarok, eastern Slovakia, a pilot Roma school will open in the coming years.
In Slovakia, there are few schools teaching the Roma language, and none where Roma is the language of instruction. "I consider it particularly important to create a space for the education of children from ethnic minorities in their mother tongue, including Roma children," said Education Minister Tomáš Drucker (Hlas). The Education Ministry, the village of Rakúsy, the University of Prešov, and the Association of Schools Teaching the Roma Language have signed a memorandum of cooperation for the establishment of the school.
According to data from the Atlas of Roma Communities from 2019, there are about 450,000 inhabitants of Roma origin living in Slovakia, and 60 percent of them primarily use the Roma language at home. If you like what we are doing and want to support good journalism, buy our online subscription with no ads and a print copy of The Slovak Spectator sent to your home in Slovakia. Thank you.
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