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Education Report 2012: Failed Grade – East Jerusalem's Failing Educational System
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Tens of thousands of schoolchildren in East Jerusalem will continue to receive second-rate education, if any, during the 2012 school year despite their basic right to education. Most will find themselves in dysfunctional public schools, lacking adequate resources and personnel, including many operating out of residential apartments. Of those who will have access to education, 40% will drop out by the time they reach 12th grade. Many families will be forced to fund informal education programs, often entailing thousands of NIS per year, in crude violation of their right to free education. Such expenses are especially detrimental to residents of East Jerusalem, in which poverty has reached an all-time high: 78% of the general population and 84% of children in the area are below the national poverty line.
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Tens of thousands of schoolchildren in East Jerusalem will continue to receive second-rate education, if any, during the 2012 school year despite their basic right to education. Most will find themselves in dysfunctional public schools, lacking adequate resources and personnel, including many operating out of residential apartments. Of those who will have access to education, 40% will drop out by the time they reach 12th grade. Many families will be forced to fund informal education programs, often entailing thousands of NIS per year, in crude violation of their right to free education. Such expenses are especially detrimental to residents of East Jerusalem, in which poverty has reached an all-time high: 78% of the general population and 84% of children in the area are below the national poverty line.
Officially Out of Order: The Education System in Silwan
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This report reviews the condition of educational infrastructure in the neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem, and demonstrates how statistics indicating the state of the educational system in East Jerusalem as a whole manifest in the lives of children and their parents. This report was written alongside Ir Amim’s and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel’s annual monitoring report, published in August 2012, and it serves as a case study for understanding the stories behind the statistics.
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Education Report 2011 - The East Jerusalem School System
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The East Jerusalem school system has suffered from severe neglect for many years. Any solution, therefore, will require a deep overhaul and a comprehensive long-term plan to overcome the ongoing failure of the authorities. Although there has been some progress recently, change has come decades too late and, for the moment, is moving too slowly. This paper represents an annual update on the status of various aspects of the education system. Ir Amim and ACRI continue to monitor, document and act for the full realization of the basic constitutional right of the tens of thousands of children of East Jerusalem for adequate education.
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Education Report 2010: Failed Grade - The Education System in East Jerusalem
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Despite the fact that Israeli Education Law requires the State to provide education services to all residents of Israel, there continues to be a severe shortage of more than 1,000 classrooms in East Jerusalem. This shortage, as well as the sub-standard conditions of existing classrooms, has led more than 40,000 pupils to turn to private schools, while approximately 5,300 children do not attend school at all. Despite the promises of Israeli authorities to the High Court of Justice in 2007 to build 645 classrooms by 2011, not much has changed since then.
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Education Report 2009: The Arab-Palestinian School System in East Jerusalem
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The report reveals that thousands of Palestinian pupils in East Jerusalem are denied access to free public education. Of those lucky enough to find space in municipal public schools, thousands learn in substandard classrooms. The report also addresses the problematic conduct of both the State of Israel and the Jerusalem Municipality towards this issue.
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Beyond the Wall
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One quarter of Jerusalem's Palestinian population - some 55,000 residents - will be separated from the city as a result of constructing the separation barrier.
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