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NEWS
MK Gafni Asks State Comptroller to Address Anti-Chareidi
Discrimination in Bussing Budget
By Yechiel Sever
MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni sent an urgent letter to the State
Comptroller, retired judge Micha Lindenstrauss, following
alarming findings revealed during a Knesset Education
Committee meeting according to which the chareidi education
system is severely discriminated against in the area of
transportation budgeting.
"The transportation budget for students in the official
school system is NIS 900 million ($230 million)," Rabbi Gafni
noted in the letter, "whereas Chinuch Atzmai is budgeted a
total of NIS 21 million ($5.3 million), and according to my
estimates the transportation budget for the entire chareidi
education system comes to NIS 25 million ($6.4 million), i.e.
2.3 percent of the overall bussing budget, while the chareidi
school system accounts for 20 percent of all students. If the
budget were based on equality as the law requires, the
transportation budget for chareidi schools would be NIS 180
million ($46 million)."
In his letter Rabbi Gafni also notes that four years ago it
was decided to institute eligibility criteria, but these
criteria are only applied to chareidi schools.
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