Tabachnyk: School charity fund should be cashless

Charity fund in secondary schools can exist only with the agreement of the pedagogical council and the parent committee, education and science minister of Ukraine Dmytro Tabachnyk told a briefing, ForUm correspondent reports.  

Charitable fund of a school should be formed on a cashless basis. "If a teacher or director takes money – it’s an absolute offense. No one can force hand over money to the fund," the minister said.

Tabachnyk added that so far he did not received complaints from parents about the money extortion. "If these facts are, then we, together with the heads of schools, will investigate each case to, bringing the perpetrators to disciplinary responsibility, or if it will go beyond the limit, to the criminal responsibility," Tabachnyk concluded.