Editing Polonization (section)

==== Education ====
The Polish administration closed many of the [[Prosvita]] reading rooms. The number of reading rooms declined from 2,879 in 1914 to only 843 in 1923. The decline can be partially explained by the war devastation.{{Sfn|Magocsi|2010|p=631}}

In independent Poland, education was centralized, and provincial school administration was abolished, as happened with Lwów-based separate Ukrainian representation.{{Sfn|Magocsi|2010|p=631}} In 1924 the law was passed, which set up bilingual Ukrainian and Polish schools. As a result, number of Ukrainian unilingual schools declined, and they were replaced by bilingual schools. This affected Eastern Galicia most severely, where before the war there were 2,400 Ukrainian elementary schools, and during the existence of the West Ukrainian People's Republic their number increased to about 3,000. After the region was annexed to Poland, the number began to decline, in 1923 it was 2453, in 1925 it was still 2151, but after the introduction of bilingual schools there was a rapid decline to 648 schools in 1930 and 352 in 1938. At the same time, the number of bilingual schools grew from 9 in 1925 to 1,793 in 1930 and to 2,485 in 1938. The number of Polish schools also declined from 2,568 schools in 1925 to 2,161 in 1938.

The principle of "numerus clausus" had been introduced following which the Ukrainians were discriminated when entering the [[Lviv University|Uniwersytet Jana Kazimierza]] (not more than 15% of the applicants' total number, the Poles enjoying not less than the 50% quota at the same time).<ref name="National University of L'viv">[http://www.lnu.edu.ua/general/about.htm Brief history of L'viv University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513221016/http://www.lnu.edu.ua/general/about.htm|date=2013-05-13}}</ref>