Szkolnictwo w powiecie Łukowskim 1915-1917

The school education system in the Łuków area (1915-1917)

After the fall of the January uprising the tzarist Russia's authorities imposed a new model of school policy whose aim was integration and unification of the Congress Kingdom of Poland with Russia. In the years of 1868-85 Russian was introduced as the official language of school instruction and state administration. It was also a period of development of elementary education system in the Lublin region.  During World War I the region's schools suffered heavy losses. In 1915 Poles Started reconstruction of schools in the region. The joint Austrian-German Civil Authorities produced new legal regulations concerning education. In 1917 control over schools was passed in a decree issued by the general governor Hans von Beseler to the Interim Commission which was created by the Interim State Council (Tymczasowa Rada Stanu).  The article attempts to reconstruct the situation of the school education system in the Łuków area in the years of 1915-1917.