The Tatar community in Mordovia now. There is one Tatar public organization - the Yaktashlar Society. The religious centre - the muftiat of Mordovia was registered in 1996 but the registration was cancelled in 1997 because of the documentation was made with mistakes. According to the Ministry of Education, the Tatar language is taught in different forms in 32 schools. Only one primary school teaches in Tatar.
Textbooks are unavailable because of serious financial problems.
The training of teachers for Tatar schools is done in colleges in Saransk and in the Ichalki pedagogical school. Tatar language is taught only to a group of Tatar students in the Ichalki pedagogical school. The rating of this school is very low among Tatars, becuse the Ichalki district is mostly populated by Erzias, there are no Tatar villages, the teacher of Tatar comes once a week from Saransk. Those who go to Kazan to study don t usually come back. Tatar is taught by teachers of different subjects, they get some training during the course of qualification s improvement in the College of Teacher s Skills Improvement.