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Knesset panels vote to extend mandatory schooling to grade 12

By Or Kashti, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: education ministry

The Knesset's Finance and Education Committees decided Monday morning at a joint meeting to exclude a clause from the Economic Arrangements Law which cancels a law calling for mandatory schooling until the 12th grade.

The law was initially filed by the Education Committee's chair, MK Michael Melchior (Labor Meimad).

The Economic Arrangements Law is a hodgepodge of treasury proposals that accompanies the budget every year. It is designed to bypass the regular legislative process to implement reforms and other changes that the Finance Ministry wants to push through quickly and usually without much debate.

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In recent days, Melchior held long hearings with the Finance Ministry, concluding with the ministry agreeing to implement the law in exchange for a longer time period for its implementation.

Following Monday's meeting, Melchior said, "The law is underway, with the government committed to its implementation. This is a law that will save thousands of children, including new immigrants and children from rural areas, who will not be able to be expelled from their studies."

The new law, which was passed earlier this year, requires mandatory schooling until the age of 18, instead of the current age 16, enforcing that every child in Israel would have 12 years of schooling.

At the time, Education Minister Yuli Tamir opposed the law, as did the coalition, out of concern it would take away from other factors in the ministry's general budget.

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