On Thursday, the government approved the Ministry of Education and Research's comprehensive action plan for the transition to teaching in Estonian. For example, the state will motivate teachers who relocate to Ida-Viru County with higher salaries and provide them with inexpensive housing.
As the state lacks the resources to develop a bilingual school system, the transition to all Estonian-language teaching will take place in the majority of educational institutions already during the new school year, Minister of Education Tõnis Lukas said at a press conference dedicated to the start of the school year.