In the 2025-2026 academic year, the Czechia will terminate its state programme of support for Ukrainian schoolchildren. As officially confirmed to Seznam Zprávy by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, schools will no longer receive targeted subsidies for Ukrainian-speaking assistants, special teaching materials and integration programmes for refugee children.
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Over the past three years, the programme has covered 193 schools with at least 10% of students in temporary protection status. In the first half of 2025 alone, 89 million kroons were allocated to the programme. All funding went directly to educational institutions, mainly to pay for translation assistants and create conditions for Ukrainian children to study.
The ministry explained the termination of support by budgetary constraints. All resources will be used to meet the basic needs of the school system, including salaries for non-teaching staff.
The programme has been in place since the mass arrival of Ukrainians in the Czech Republic after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Now schools have to decide on their own how to continue working with Ukrainian students without additional state resources.
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