Finanțarea de către stat a învățământului general obligatoriu: interesul superior al copilului în lumina dreptului la educație și dreptului de a nu fi discriminate

Abstract

Education is a special public service, which the State is obliged to support, first of all through adequate funding to ensure, among other objectives, an appropriate quality of education. However, realizing the importance of ensuring an appropriate level of quality of education, depending on financial possibilities, many States undertake the financing of compulsory general education both in public pre-university institutions and, at least partially, in private ones. However, this is not the case of the Republic of Moldova, where parents who opt for the education of their children in private preuniversity institutions, assume the entire cost of studies in these schools. Thus, the Moldovan State through its public policies suggests,contrary to what is stated in the legal texts, that the cost of studies in private schools of general education represents an exclusive burden of the parents.