Government Fails To Follow High Court Order On Haredi Education

The High Court responds by ordering the government to explain why haredi schools are not giving their students the standardized country wide tests that measure knowledge in Israel’s core curriculum – a curriculum haredi schools illegally refuse to teach.

Government Fails To Follow High Court Order On Haredi Education
The High Court responds by ordering the government to explain why haredi schools are not giving their students the standardized country wide tests that measure knowledge in Israel’s core curriculum – a curriculum haredi schools illegally refuse to teach
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Israel’s High Court has again been ignored by a Likud government.

In response to a petition filed by the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism in 2010, Israel’s High Court ordered the Education Ministry to give the court a progress report on haredi schools compliance with a law requiring all schools to use standardized tests to measure knowledge in Israel’s core curriculum – a curriculum haredi schools illegally refuse to teach.

But the Jerusalem Post reports that the Likud-led government of Benjamin Netanyahu ignored the High Court’s order.

In response, the High Court did the only thing it really could do – it ordered the government to explain why haredi schools have not started the standardized testing.

The Netanyahu-led government is dependent on haredi support to remain in power.