Kyrgyzstan to provide free textbooks for all school students

President Sadyr Japarov announced that the Kyrgyz government will provide free textbooks to students in grades 1 to 12 within the next two years.

The president stated that this initiative will remove the requirement for parents to purchase books for their children. He noted that Kyrgyzstan became one of the first countries in the CIS, a regional group of former Soviet republics, to adopt a 12-year education system.

To fund this plan, the president issued a decree to allocate 8.5 billion soms for printing the necessary materials. He argued that this reform aligns with the education systems used by the rest of the world.