Ultra-Orthodox Schools No Longer Required To Teach Core Subjects: Knesset

The Knesset moved very early Tuesday to reverse a 2013 Yesh Atid-sponsored bill, set to take effect starting 2018, that would’ve cut funding to Haredi elementary schools that didn’t spend at least 11 hours per week teaching English, math, and science. Following the formation of the current governing coalition in 2015, the Knesset’s ultra-Orthodox parties demanded that the law, which would have affected 40,000-50,000 of Israel’s 440,000 ultra-Orthodox students, be struck down, according to The Times of Israel:

The law…would have slashed state funding for some Haredi institutions from its current 55 percent of the budgets received by Israeli schools that comply fully with the core curriculum, to 35 percent. Instead of requiring the Haredi schools to teach 10 to 11 hours per week of secular studies, as the Yesh Atid law stipulated, the proposed law would now give Education Minister Naftali Bennett the discretion to fund these institutions.

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