The government has promised to pay general education teachers in Ida-Viru County who speak Estonian 1.5 times the salary compared to other regions starting from the next academic year. While the exact regulation is still in the works, schools and local governments have a plethora of unanswered questions.
Following the switch to Estonian as the only language of instruction in schools, children from Russian-speaking families will not have to learn the Russian alphabet in Russian language classes alongside their Estonian-speaking classmates. According to the Ministry of Education and Research, Russian-speaking children will be given the opportunity to learn their first language and culture in separate classes.