WAYS OF FINANCING
THE SPECIAL
EDUCATION SYSTEM
IN ROMANIA
SPECIAL EDUCATION AND INTEGRATED SPECIAL EDUCATION IN
ROMÂNIA
Includes education units and structures which ensure educational and therapeutic
recovery assistance for children, pupils and youngsters with special education
needs, organized in the following structures and levels:
;Early education (0-5 years) formed during the ante-preschool level (0-3 years) and preschool
education (3-6 years)- special kindergartens/preschool groups;
 Primary education (classes I-IV) and lower secondary school (classes V-IX) in schools organized
on types of deficiency-movement, physical and mental, sensorial, auditory, visual deficiency
on different levels- special schools/ School Centers for Inclusive Education.
 Upper secondary School/High school (classes X-XII/XIII) with the following : theoretical, vocational
and technical for specializations and qualifications established by Ministry of Education,
Research, Youth and Sports, in conformity with the National Register of Qualifications;
 Tertiary non-university education, post upper secondary education- individual integration;
 Special education centers for early intervention;
 Centers/schools for curative pedagogy;
 Centers/schools for preventive education (for pupils with behavior disturbance)/ special schools for
imprisoned persons (School from Prisons);
 Resources county centres and educational assistance.
SPECIAL EDUCATION AND INTEGRATED is organised:
Usually:
As day education in groups/classes with a number of 8-12 pupils (for moderate
deficiencies),groups/classes with a number of 4-6 children/pupils with severe/associated
deficiencies;
Home education- for children/pupils who are not transportable for medical reasons.
In school units which are special organized on types of deficiencies, and at their level there are
organized classes of different degrees (moderate, severe or associated deficiencies);
Individual integration in regular schools;
Schooling in a day/extern system;
Schooling in Day Care Centre system;
Schooling in term system boarding.
“The general compulsory education has 10 grades and comprises the primary and
the lower secondary education. The obligation to attend the 10 grades education,
at the frequency system, ceases at the age of 18. In order to accomplish the
finalities of the education and professional training through the national system of
education, the state upper secondary education is generalized and tuition free”
Facilities given to pupils with Special Education Needs (SEN)
Children and youngsters with special education needs, who study in special education needs or
mass schools, including those studying in a different county than the residence one, benefit from
social assistance meaning ensuring the daily food ratio, school supplies, accommodation,
clothes and footwear in equal amount with the children comprised in the child protection system,
as well as free accommodation in boarding school or assistance centres for children with special
education needs who are comprised in the county departments/Bucharest department for social
assistance and child protection (Law 1/2011);
Ensuring the service for school transport with school buses, in the same location or neighbor
locations;
Has material rights that derive from being into the category of the persons with disabilities (double
allocation etc.)
At the level of Iasi County SPECIAL EDUCATION AND SPECIAL
INTEGRATED EDUCATION include:
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6 schools that ensure educational and therapeutic recovery assistance for children and youngsters with four
types of deficiencies- mental, physical and movement, sensorial auditory and visual deficiencies, on different
levels:
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3 schools for children/pupils with mental deficiencies and severe/associated deficiencies
from Iasi county (“Constantin Păunescu” School Iaşi, Special School Pascani, TRINITAS
Special School Tg. Frumos)- with pre-school education, primary, lower secondary school
and upper secondary school-professionalization;
A school for students with hearing deficiencies with pre-school education, primary, lower
secondary and upper secondary education-professionalization-“Vasile Pavelcu” School Iasi;
A school for sight deficiencies with primary, lower secondary and upper secondary
education – “Moldova” High school, Tg. Frumos.
A school for pupils with physical, movement and neurological deficiencies with primary,
lower secondary and upper secondary education- “Ion Holban” High school Iasi.
The last three units receive pupils from all the Moldavian counties.
: .The school within Iasi Prison –Professional 41- an institution that ensures educational assistance
services for the imprisoned youngsters, from the prison system.
The County Educational Assistance and Resources Centre Iasi - a complex unit that ensures
evaluation, psycho-educational assistance, school and professional counseling for children,
pupils and youngsters with special educational needs including:
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The County Psycho-Pedagogic Assistance Centre Iasi- which ensures
counseling and psycho-educational assistance for pupils, parents and
teachers, with the help of school counselors teachers.
The Logopedics Interschool Centre Iasi – which ensures therapy services for
language deficiencies for preschoolers and pupils from the primary education.
Over 500 children/ pupils with special educational needs integrated individually/ in small groups
in over 40 integrative schools in rural and urban area- schools where the school integration
county program for children with SEN (CES) who are integrated by means of services that
offer educational support for students from the preschool, primary and lower secondary
education system
At the level of Iaşi county :
No. pupils/pre-schoolers
School name
2008
2009
2010
Special School Paşcani
102
98
109
Special School Tg. Frumos
328
331
302
“Moldova” High school Tg. Frumos
112
101
98
Special School “C. Păunescu” Iaşi
286
290
287
“I. Holban” high school Iaşi
316
306
276
” V. Pavelcu” high school Iaşi
341
332
351
FINANCING SOURCES
 State education is for free.
--“the State ensures the basic financing for all preschoolers and pupils from the general
compulsory state, private and confessional education”
-The financing is made on the basis and within the limits of the standard cost per pupil or
per preschooler, which is annually established by MECTS (Education Ministry) according
to the principle “the financial resource follows the pupil”, on the basis of which the budget
allocation for a student is being transferred to the school unit to which where the pupil
studies.
The assurance of the financing for special and special integrated
education
“The financing of the special and special integrated education is made from
the county budgets where the special education school functions, regardless of the pupils
residence”
It is made from 4 sources:
State Budget from sums obtained from the Value Added Tax (according to the Budget
Law in 2011 – law no. 286/28/12/2010);
Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports (M.E.C.T.S) through Iasi County
School Inspectorate
Iasi County Council
Other financing resources (eg. Scholarships, study credits, taxes, donations,
sponsorships) and from self financing
“For the financing of the national education there is annually allocated from the state
budget and from the local public authorities’ budgets a minimum of 6% from the gross domestic
product of the respective year. Additionally the schools and education institutions can obtain and
use autonomously their own incomes.” (National Education Law 1/2011 )
(GD. 1251/2005)
Present laws:
Law no. 286/2010 – regarding the state budget in 2011
Law no. 284/2010- frame law regarding unitary remuneration for the personnel paid from public
funds;
Law no. 285/2010 - regarding the remuneration in 2011 for the personnel paid from public funds;
The Public Finance Law no. 273/2006 – updated;
Order no. 2839/14.12.2010 for methodological norms approval regarding the budget year for
2010;
Law 1/2011 – National Education Law;
G.D 1251/2005 regarding improvement measures for the children’s/pupils’/youngsters’/ learning,
instruction, compensation, recovery activities and special protection within the special and
special integrated education;
Organizing and functioning regulation for special and special integrated education;
Organizing and functioning regulation for The Educational Assistance and Resources County
Centre (MEC Order 5418/2005);
Organizing and functioning regulation for Interschool Logopedics Centers;
Organizing and functioning regulation for Inclusive Education School Centres;
State Budget by County Council
Finances:
 personnel expenses;
 Expenses representing goods and services;
 Investments expenses
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Social programs implementation
This financing is assigned to the education units by the Decision of the County
Council with technical assistance from the Iasi County School Inspectorate
State Budget ( by Budget Law) :
Also finances the following social programs:
Distribution of dairy and bakery products for preschoolers from kindergartens with a
normal schedule of 4 hours and pupils from grades I-VIII;
Distribution of honey as a nutritive supplement for preschoolers and pupils from grades
I-IV;
Implementing the fruits eating encouragement program for pupils from grades I-VIII;
This financing is assigned to the education units by the Decision of the County Council with
technical assistance from the Iasi County School Inspectorate
•For information and documentation centres;
THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, YOUTH AND SPORTS
Finanţează şi derularea a :
Finances and runs:
a) National programs for social protection and educational support for students by giving
away scholarships
Merit scholarships
 Study scholarships
Social scholarships
“Money for high school” scholarships
B)National programs for equipment in education units and development of the material
base:
For school cabinets and laboratories;
For school libraries (with school books);
For gymnasiums (with sports equipments);
For psycho pedagogic and logopedics offices;
For information and documentation centers;
With school buses
At the level of Iaşi County
The Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports has sustained the development of the
material base from education institutions and other related to pre-university units by assigning
funds.
Equipment for school laboratories and cabinets
2.888.968 RON
221 lower secondary schools+professional shool
(68.884 pupils)
1.627.376 RON
51 colleges, high-schools and technical schools
(44.764 pupils)
1.219.988 RON
6 special schools (1.686 pupils)
41.604 RON
Equipment for psycho pedagogic and logopedics offices and centers
10 psycho pedagogic offices – school units
160.000 RON
8 psycho pedagogic offices– special education schools
128.000 RON
4 logopedics offices- school units
12 logopedics offices- special education schools
48.000 RON
144.000 RON
480.000 RON
For school book
1.504.644 RON
340 kindergartens, primary schools, lower secondary schools,
professional schools, high-schools, colleges and technical
schools (145.418 pupils)
1.503.344 RON
6 special schools (1.686 pupils)
1 TTC
Equipment for school
materials
1.300 RON
units representing machines, devices, and sports
233 primary, lower secondary schools and professional
schools (81.169 pupils)
953.092 RON
51 colleges, high schools and technical schools (44.764 pupils)
491.848 RON
6 special schools (1.686 pupils)
1.468.841 RON
23.901 RON
Equipment for documentation and information centres – 12 school units
504.000 RON
Equipment for special and therapy offices– 6 special units
451.000 RON
Equipment for psycho pedagogic offices – 4 units
Equipment for logopedics offices – 10 units
64.000 RON
120.000 RON
Funds for 26 school buses in the pre-university system:
 Tg.Frumos Special Professional school
 Tg.Frumos Special School
 “V.Pavelcu” Technical School Iasi
 “C.Păunescu” Special School Iaşi
 Paşcani Special School
At the level of Iaşi county
Hiring personnel in school units from Iasi county at the beginning of school year was made in
accordance with the stipulations of the Education Law 84/1995, Law no. 128/1997, GD no.
281/1993 with dispositions and methodologies of M.Ed. C no. 5440/2005, 5441/2005,
5442/2005 that stipulate the mobility and tenure didactic personnel, respecting the graphic for
the mobility stages stipulated in M.E.C.T methodology.
Financing Special Schools
"Vasile Pavelcu" Technical School Iasi
"Vasile Pavelcu" Technical School Iasi
3,467,863
3,600,000
497,710
3,400,000
500,000
400,000
296,776
3,200,000
317,600
2,935,039
3,011,845
3,000,000
300,000
2,800,000
200,000
2,600,000
100,000
2008
0
2008
2009
2010
Equipment expenses
"Vasile Pavelcu" Technical School Iasi
3,764,639
3,800,000
3,700,000
3,600,000
3,500,000
3,400,000
3,300,000
3,200,000
3,100,000
3,432,749
3,329,445
2008
2009
Total expenses
2010
2009
Personnel expenses
2010
"Ion Holban" Technical School Iasi
1,000,000
"Ion Holban" Technical School Iasi
826,000
4,400,000
4,200,000
4,000,000
3,800,000
3,600,000
3,400,000
3,200,000
800,000
453,848
600,000
280,000
400,000
200,000
0
2008
2009
2010
Equipment expenses
6,000,000
5,000,000
4,000,000
3,000,000
2,000,000
1,000,000
0
5,089,550
4,093,069
2008
3,639,221
2008
"Ion Holban" Technical School Iasi
2009
Total expenses
4,625,176
2010
4,345,176
4,263,550
2009
Personnel expenses
2010
Moldova High-school Targu Frumos
Moldova High-school Targu Frumos
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
270,000
2,000,000
151,500
1,510,000
1,655,000
1,362,000
1,500,000
127,000
1,000,000
500,000
2008
2009
2010
Equipment expenses
0
2008
Moldova high-school Targu Frumos
2,000,000
1,780,000
1,806,500
1,489,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
2008
2009
Total expenses
2010
2009
Personnel expenses
2010
"C. Paunescu" Special School Iasi
"C. Paunescu"Special School Iasi
237,489
250,000
4,128,044
180,568
200,000
4,200,000
156,819
4,000,000
150,000
3,800,000
100,000
3,600,000
50,000
3,400,000
3,803,493
3,626,830
3,200,000
0
2008
2008
2009
2010
Equipment expenses
"C. Paunescu" Special School Iasi
4,308,612
4,400,000
4,200,000
4,040,982
4,000,000
3,783,649
3,800,000
3,600,000
3,400,000
2008
2009
Total expenses
2010
2009
Personnel expenses
2010
Special School Pascani
Special School Pascani
337,000
1,675,000
350,000
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
1,700,000
189,000
184,000
1,604,000
1,600,000
1,420,000
1,500,000
1,400,000
2008
2009
Equipment expenses
1,300,000
2010
1,200,000
2008
2009
Personnel expenses
Special School Pascani
1,941,000
1,864,000
1,604,000
2,000,000
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000
0
2008
2009
Total expenses
2010
2010
Trinitas Special School Targu Frumos
350,000
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
Trinitas Special School Targu Frumos
317,000
1,631,000
235,000
1,640,000
1,620,000
1,600,000
1,580,000
1,560,000
1,540,000
1,520,000
1,500,000
189,298
2008
2009
Equipment expenses
2010
1,574,000
1,550,000
2008
Trinitas Special School Targu Frumos
1,891,000
1,900,000
1,820,298
1,850,000
1,785,000
1,800,000
1,750,000
1,700,000
2008
2009
Total expenses
2010
2009
Personnel expenses
2010