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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 05:45 25/12/2007 Knesset extends Compulsory Education Law to 12th grade By Or Kashti Tags: Israel, Knesset, Education The amendment to the Compulsory Education Law, extending its coverage through 12th grade, will take effect next school year. Currently the law applies to pupils through 10th grade. The Knesset's education and finance committees Monday rejected a proposal to cancel the amendment, which was included in the Economic Arrangements Bill. Before the voting, the Education Committee chair, MK Michael Melchior (Labor), reached an understanding with Finance Ministry officials to remove their objection in return for extending the law's implementation period up to the 2012-13 school year. L Advertisement ast July the Knesset approved Melchior's proposed amendment, which was seconded by numerous other MKs, but a short while later the Finance Ministry introduced into the Economic Arrangements Bill a proposal to cancel the amendment, citing a "budget cost" estimated then at NIS 190 million. Currently, when schools want to drop pupils after 10th grade, they are not obligated to find them alternative frameworks. The amended law makes the Education Ministry and local authorities responsible for such teenagers through 12th grade. Bookmark to del.icio.us Happy birthday Gloom has been banished from Bethlehem's Christmas celebrations. Reforming Judaism An international Reform movement summit in Jerusalem will tackle issues of status in Israel.   1.   Yuo think education is expensive, try ignorance! 05:58  |  Shlomo 25/12/07

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