Education Ministry's funding crisis deprives blind students of text books

More than 3,000 blind and visually impaired students will not receive any ne w school text books written in Braille, since the Education Ministry has no money to pay for them. The cost of printing each book is around zl.1,200, an d to date the Ministry has covered the entire expense. "Due to such negligen ce poorly-educated disabled youth will have no chance of finding a good j ob," commented head of the Polish Blind Association (PZN) Sylwester Peryt. Now teachers are trying to help by copying ordinary schoolbooks in large pri nt and rewriting them in Braille. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.Z.