Hungary to Scrap Education Authority Following Teacher Protests
- Support for Orban's party has dropped since protests started
- Teachers' demands backed by majority of Hungarians, poll shows
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Hungary will abolish the state authority overseeing public education, a government official said, signaling a rare political defeat for Prime Minister Viktor Orban after months of protests by teachers.
The authority, known as Klik, will “cease to exist this summer,” Bence Retvari, a state secretary at the Human Resources Ministry, which deals with education, said in an interview on ATV television on Tuesday. “There’s criticism that we accept and areas that we have to improve.”