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Adava Report: Education in Israel is For the Rich
According to a report publicized this morning, the State of Israel has created a segregated education system - "for the rich only" – whereby many school functions are funded by private money donated to the schools by the parents of the students. The report therefore claims that Israel's students are the victims of "natural selection".
The report examined a number of aspects in the education system, and presents statistics regarding the number of students, the rates of academic achievement, and budget information for the different educational networks in the country.
The most interesting trend analyzed by the report, is the way wealthy municipalities have taken advantage of declining government investment and supervision of the education system. In many parts of the country, entire networks have been established "for the rich alone", where schools receive a majority of their funding from parents, organizations, and businesses. That causes – says the report – a state of "natural selection" in the country between children whose parents can afford to supplement their education, and those whose parents cannot.
According to the report, the government has actually contributed to this failing, by permitting parents to give money to schools, and by permitting the schools to receive that money. The government is clearly to blame for the dire state of affairs, the report claims, because it did not enforce socioeconomic integration in middle schools, it encourage private enterprises in schools, and it did not require all schools to teach the same curriculums.
The report suggested imposing sanctions on schools that do not follow the required curriculum. The government, to its credit, has attempted to provide additional teaching hours to school in poor communities, but the wealthy municipalities also supplemented their school budgets, thereby perpetuating the differences between the different sectors and networks.
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