PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT 2017-2020 The present coverage of the children from 0-6 years in pre-school education, in average is just 23%, whereas with the smaller ethnic communities it is less than 10%. That is unsatisfactory and it will have negative impact for the future development of the Republic of Macedonia. The Government will co-finance every increase of the capacities of the state kindergartens in the whole country. Our goal is for percentage of children in the pre-school education to be increased for 50% in the course of 4 years. The Government will prepare a precise plan for enlargement of the kindergartens net throughout Macedonia. With the investment, we will secure reconstruction and building of new kindergartens in many urban and rural areas, among them Struga, Gjorce Petrov, Sopishte, Centar, Aerodrom, Tetovo, Tearce, Gostivar, Lozovo, Karbinci, Chair, Shuto Orizari and others. In order to prepare children for entrance into 9-year primary education, the Government will introduce compulsory one-year pre-school education as an integration measure. This will contribute for making children that are coming from different social environments equal, as well as for start of educational process elements that vanished from our educational system in the past years. Children should have equal access to education, as it is the key for their further success in life. This step will be fully free of charge for children in municipalities that are prone to population decrease and have unfavorable economic development. The system of primary education in the first 5 years will only be with descriptive grading. Only afterwards, (the following 4 years of primary school) there will be numerical grading. Hence, the pupils and the teachers will be devoted to the quality of knowledge and not to racing grades. The Government will offer high school education that last two, three or four years: we will keep the classical gymnasium education and the four-year vocational education, but we will also introduce possibility for completion after the second and third year of vocational education. The change will be such that the first staff will join the labor market after finishing two or three years of vocational education, on their age of 17. Namely, those that want to join the labor market should not be kept in the educational process, as the issue is about young people that show weak results in the higher level of education. To those young people we will provide fast access to the economy and time to mature and plan its own business career with the possibility for later finishing higher education. Instead of policy of sanctions, the Government will promote policy of rewards and stimulations. The employees in the best 5% primary and 10% high schools, as well as the teachers, whose pupils will achieve reward on municipal and state competitions, will receive 20% bigger salary in the following 12 months. The schools that will be in the upper 10% according to the results achieved with their own educational quality will be granted the right to mark additional points on the final certificates, as schools with above-average results. Apart from compulsory courses, we will introduce in schools extracurricular activities for greater creativity. We will release the teachers from administrative obligations, but we will demand from them to work with young people on development of their talents. 30