The Clinic for Law and Educational Policy recently reached an agreement with the Petah Tikva Municipality that will allow asylum seekers to register their children for kindergartens in the local school system. As part of the settlement, the children’s parents must show proof of residence. The city also agreed to discontinue its practice of segregating children of asylum seekers into separate kindergarten classes. Attorney Haran Reichman who heads the Clinic for Law and Educational Policy, explains that the Clinic’s outreach efforts are aimed at representing groups who suffer from systematic educational disadvantages and who lack sufficient access to legal representation, such as asylum seekers, Arab society, the Ultra-orthodox community, and students from peripheral regions. READ FULL STORY HERE
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