Czech lower house postpones school financing reform until 2020

The launch of a reform of the Czech school system financing, which should enable to finance region-operated schools based on the number of taught lessons and no longer of students, will be postponed by one year until September 2019, the Chamber of Deputies decided on Friday. The postponement, approved within an amendment to the school law and still requiring approval from the upper house of parliament, is to facilitate the switch to the new system.