Officials in the Ministry of Education have unveiled new plans to purportedly safeguard women’s schools. One plan suggests new building requirements that will completely block outsiders from being able to peep inside the schools, while another proposes new dress codes for female students.

A Ministry of Education official announced that school administrators have been put in charge of drafting the details for the new dress code requirements. The ministry has sent a compact disk to every school outlining a general framework.

Farnaz Beigi, who serves as an advisor in women’s affairs to the Ministry of Education says, “The necessary guidelines have been sent to school administrators on a compact disk. They are free to enact their own measures given their school district’s social and economic condition.”

Meanwhile, the advisor to the Education Minister and head of women’s affairs at the ministry, Mehri Savizi, believes, “Female teachers and students have the best covering in all of the nation.” She continues, “We will do our best to conform the girls’ clothing requirements to their environment’s weather and conditions, which is natural thing to do.”

Several conferences have been organized in the past month to train teachers and facilitators about the ministry’s new guidelines. Ministry officials have announced plans to organize similar conferences and gatherings throughout the year.

The Ministry of Education also made an official announcement about new building requirements for female schools. According to Mohammad Reza Torabi, who oversees renovation efforts at the ministry, “The ministry will utilize the recommendations of experts to rebuild and remodel certain schools, so as to block outsiders from looking inside schools.”

Experts speculate that the implementation of such a plan across the country will require funds in excess of 500 billion rials [about 6 million U.S. dollars]. Nevertheless, Torabi has announced plans to test the program with a 5 billion rial [about half a million U.S. dollars] budget in the coming year. If the program is successful, says Torabi, the ministry will continue to implement it in the coming years.