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Education Minister Threatens Chareidi Schools
by E. Rauchberger

Education Minister Limor Livnat announced at a press conference in Tel Aviv last week that in the coming school year the Education Ministry will not allocate funding to schools that fail to meet the quota for secular studies, whose contents are to be determined by the Ministry.

Livnat termed her plan "revolutionary," declaring that for the first time in the history of the State of Israel all schools from all streams of Judaism would have to follow a Core Program that will set a minimum number of classroom hours to be devoted to "core" subjects as determined by the Education Ministry.

Livnat stressed that the program will obligate Chinuch Atzmai schools as well, adding that Chinuch Atzmai and Maayan Hachinuch Hatorani schools will only be required to follow 75 percent of the core curriculum in order to receive 100 percent of the funding.

The program follows a High Court decision three years ago requiring the State to set curriculum standards. The court ruling supported an appeal filed by Yosef Paritzky from Shinui.

Education Ministry Director-General Ronit Tirosh added that the program is designed "to promote a common denominator among all streams and to create common values in order to close gaps in society."

At the press conference it was also announced that the Core Program would be implemented gradually over the course of five years starting next year and that nationwide tests in the required subjects would be held as part of the new program. Ministry heads added that all schools that receive funding would be required to accept students in accordance with a Ministry of Education integration policy.

MK Rabbi Moshi Gafni told Yated Ne'eman, "Under no circumstances will Chinuch Atzmai institutions permit any interference with the curriculum . . . Only gedolei Yisroel determine and will determine the curriculum and the pedagogic framework at Chinuch Atzmai schools, and there will be no outside interference."

 

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