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Under the reform plan, teacher salaries will rise by 42%; however, their work week will rise from 24 to 40 hours.

New program, coming after years of deliberations, would see teachers' pay increase by 51% in exchange for additional working hours.

Prof. Yedidia Stern says real reason she was relieved of her role as the Education Ministry's chairman of its professional advisory committee on civics, is that she opposes changes being pushed by the ministry's pedagogical secretariat.

Mathematics matriculation exam being held Monday; schools have ordered 310,515 exams of differing degrees of difficulty.

If a weekend celebration in a hotel influences the atmosphere in the classroom or the feelings of other students and parents, the school is not only allowed to intervene, it has an obligation to do so. All that is needed is educational backbone.

Although enrollment at French Jewish schools is on the rise, an equal number of pupils attend non-Jewish private schools. Vive la difference.