Ensuring the right to study and combat the high cost of school. This is the aim of initiating experimental free loan wanted by Lazio Region and the Municipality of Rome. The loan for use allows students to borrow directly from school textbooks.
to make public, at a press conference, the Regional Councillor for Education and the City Councillor Silvia Costa Policies School Maria Coscia. This year, testing will start in the schools of Rome 'Pio la Torre', 'John Paul II' and 'Paola Sarro', as well as high school students 'Gianni Rodari' to Manzanita, near Rome.
''The schools participating in the initiative - said Councillor Costa - instead of distributing the vouchers to eligible families, because below a certain income, may, with the consent of the same family, using to buy the books adopted by the teachers. Teachers, in turn, agree not to change the textbooks during the entire period.
Families of students will sign and then the actual loan contracts with a commitment to return books in good condition at the end of the school year or course.
Lazio is among the first regions, together with Friuli Venezia Giulia, Sardinia and Trentino Alto Adige to experience the loan for ' use that will allow students' families are not eligible for scholarships and good books, save 100% expenditure.
