Penza, 8 January 2013. PenzaNews. 74% of textbooks were provided for students of the Penza region in 2012. This information was published in the year-end report of the regional Ministry of Education.

According to the document, school libraries acquired more than 346 thousand textbooks for the students of first and second grades, students of third and fifth grades of the groups where the federal state educational standards are implemented for the first time, and students from seventh to eleventh grades.

In total, 87,4 million rubles were spent for this purpose.