All schools that had been built by Slovak League (there were approximately 150) were declared to be the property of the Hungarian state. According to Jablonický, Deák and other authors, 862 of 1,119 teachers lost their jobs by the end of 1938; others followed in the next years. Janics puts the total number of teachers at 1,088 and added that most of them had left voluntarily when the Award came into effect. At the beginning of 1939, the Slovak government protested the expulsion of Slovak teachers and the liquidation of Slovak schools and threatened reciprocal measures against Hungarian minority schools if Hungary's policy continued.