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The Law on Amendments to the Citizenship Act and the Basic School and Gymnasium Act

i lugemine lopetatudEstonia· Riigikogu· ET

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9 September 2019

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The bill adds a provision to the Citizenship Act, which, upon approval, can be deemed to have fulfilled the Estonian language proficiency requirement, which is a prerequisite for obtaining Estonian citizenship, if a person has acquired elementary, secondary or higher education in Estonian or has passed the national exam in Estonian as a second language with the required result in elementary school or high school. The law also provides for the possibility to read the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia, which is a prerequisite for obtaining Estonian citizenship and the requirement to know the citizenship law is fulfilled if the person has successfully passed a national test in elementary school, which assesses the knowledge of the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia, the fundamentals of the state order and the functioning of society, as well as the rights and obligations of a citizen. The purpose of the amendments is to regulate the general conditions in the law for harmonizing tests for applying for citizenship and tests at the end of elementary school. There is also a proposal to change the elementary school and in the Upper Secondary School Act as a whole, the provisions related to graduation from basic school, contesting exam and exam results, and external evaluation of learning results, and establish them in a new wording. This means that if the bill comes into force, passing the final exams of basic school will no longer be a condition for graduating from basic school. Schools are given the right to decide for themselves whether a student has acquired basic education and to establish their own requirement - a school exam, creative or research work that corresponds to the specifics of the school. According to the draft, all students in the final year of elementary school will be given an exam in Estonian and Estonian as a second language, the completion of which is not related to graduation from elementary school, but the purpose of which is to measure the level of Estonian language proficiency of a person who has acquired basic education. In addition, changes are made in the external evaluation of learning results. The purpose of the changes is to ensure that students, parents, schools, to the head of the school and the state as objective and comparable feedback as possible regarding the learning outcomes stipulated in the national curricula. The law envisages national surveys of students, parents and school staff as a new external evaluation instrument, the results of which help create the necessary context for interpreting and explaining the results of student exams or national tests.

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