It was revealed that the Octobrist party had its own concept of the development of primary education. In the context of a shortage of primary schools, the party considered financing their construction a priority among other issues of primary education, since otherwise it would be impossible to ensure guarantees of its general availability and obligation. Along with this, proceeding from the unity of teaching and upbringing, where the decisive role was assigned to the teacher, attention was paid to the creation of decent conditions for his life and pedagogical activity. The work of the Octobrist Duma faction was based on the party concept of education and preceded in two directions. On the one hand, it was associated with the discussion of government bills and legislative initiatives of factions of other parties, primarily in the commission on public education and in the budget commission, in which the Octobrists prevailed and influenced the nature of the additions and changes introduced. On the other hand, the faction, in accordance with the party program, developed its own bills, the main one of which was "On universal primary education." Being a party of the systemic opposition and being realists, the Octobrists supported the proposals of the Ministry of Public Education to increase the budgetary allocations for primary education. As a result, a number of financial laws were passed that improved funding for primary schools. At the same time, the party stressed the inadequacy of the amounts released and criticized the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Education. Along with this, attention was drawn to the need to emancipate public and private initiative in opening schools, establishing trust between them and the government in resolving issues of public education.
