Head of the department of the Department of Education of the Kharkiv City Council Valery Shepel - "No child, today, will not remain without education, without the state guaranteed the right to education. It is planned to open 505 classes, which is 31 classes more than in the previous academic year. And accordingly, the number of students in the first classes is almost 14,000 ".

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine introduced certain innovations. Among the innovations - the territorial method of enrolling first-graders. The profile ministry believes that this will reduce the level of corruption. Schools take priority. That is, children whose parents are registered in the school's service area will enroll. If parents chose an educational institution other than their place of residence, their children will be enrolled on the basis of lots, which are held after the basic set, which lasted until the first of June.

"The school can not accommodate all comers. And, accordingly, this school takes, after June 1 these applications and draws lots for a certain number of places that they have not filled. This procedure was not before, this is the innovation of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. But since the question may be complex, or the parents clearly decided, there was no agiotage of the persons ", - Valery Shepel.

Problems with the draw, teachers say, in Kharkov was not, writes City Watch. The entire procedure was open, and on the websites of each Kharkiv school posted information about the availability of vacant seats.