Copenhagen: Proposal to cut funding for private schools who don't follow integration policy
City tells private schools to accept children from immigrant families or risk council funding cuts
A City Council majority backs a proposal to cut funding for private schools that do not adhere to Copenhagen's integration policy of equal distribution of children from non-Danish ethnic backgrounds.
The integration policy involves spreading children with refugee and immigrant backgrounds across schools in the city to help them assimilate to Danish life and prevent ghettoisation.
Social Democrat councillor Jan Andreasen said it was fine that the independent schools received subsidies as they had made some excellent education innovations.
'But their subsidies are a bit too much and at the same time we the problem of well-off parents choosing private schools ahead of public schools,' he told Berlingske Tidende newspaper.
The Social Democrats, Socialist People's Party and Red Green Alliance are behind the proposal to cut 10 percent of a school's council subsidies if it fails to accept children of non-Danish ethnicity.
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Source: Copenhagen Post (English)
City tells private schools to accept children from immigrant families or risk council funding cuts
A City Council majority backs a proposal to cut funding for private schools that do not adhere to Copenhagen's integration policy of equal distribution of children from non-Danish ethnic backgrounds.
The integration policy involves spreading children with refugee and immigrant backgrounds across schools in the city to help them assimilate to Danish life and prevent ghettoisation.
Social Democrat councillor Jan Andreasen said it was fine that the independent schools received subsidies as they had made some excellent education innovations.
'But their subsidies are a bit too much and at the same time we the problem of well-off parents choosing private schools ahead of public schools,' he told Berlingske Tidende newspaper.
The Social Democrats, Socialist People's Party and Red Green Alliance are behind the proposal to cut 10 percent of a school's council subsidies if it fails to accept children of non-Danish ethnicity.
(more)
Source: Copenhagen Post (English)
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