The Support of outlying regions is a new area of focus of the Priority National project 'Education' introduced in 2007. The main goal of these fully-fledged projects for the modernization of education is to give all schoolchildren regardless of their place of residence the opportunity to receive a high level of quality of general education. A high quality education means the satisfying of the current and more long term requests and requirements of a person, the society, the state, including social mobility, professional and life success, the physical, psychological and moral health of citizens.

The fully-fledged projects for the modernization of regional systems of education provide for the introduction of a new system of payment to workers in the general education system, aimed at increasing the income of teachers; the switching to a normative 'per head' financing of general education institutions, the development of a regional system of quality control of education (the provision of the conditions in which children good education regardless of their place of residence) and the enlargement of public involvement in the management of education.

The winners receive grants from the Federal Budget in order to implement their projects. In 2007, the volume of financing of this area of focus of the National Project will exceed 4 billion rubles. As a whole, the financing of the winning regions is calculated for a period of 3 years on the condition that the subject of the RF performs the obligations taken by it.