Education

Eliminating budgetary discrimination against state education and leading to equality among all of Israel's students.

• •Advancing equality among all students and ending the discrimination between education streams.
• •Schools will be funded equally according to the number of students and their socioeconomic background.
• •In addition, working to expand individual teaching hours that will answer the need for private lessons, ending parent payments in education, and expanding the long school day and the school-meals program.
• •Working to close the gaps in science, English and digital literacy and advancing equal opportunity for every child everywhere in the country.

Establishing the Council for State Education, giving it a backbone, stability and gatekeepers.

• •Establishing a council for state education with powers parallel to the State-Religious Education Council: the council will shape part of the state-education curriculum, give it continuity, protection and planning ability independent of political changes, cultivate identity and values, and serve as a gatekeeper regarding the entry of outside actors.

Requiring education for citizenship and democracy for all.

• •Expanding democracy and civics studies in all education streams and giving them a foundational status like English and math.
• •Creating a significant budget addition for state education, at the scale of hours currently given in state-religious education, dedicated to cultivating a Jewish-democratic-liberal identity.
• •Significantly increasing government support for pre-military frameworks and civil-society organizations that promote these values.

Strengthening informal education as a national asset.

• •Expanding the informal-education budget in the budget base, with emphasis on expanding the youth-movement and youth-organization enterprise that was dried up and cut.
• •Emphasizing programs of contribution to the community and volunteering, and strengthening, through budgeting and public buildings, sports, culture and clubs for children and youth.

Strengthening the standing of teaching and management staff and improving employment conditions.

• •Addressing the teaching crisis and the shortage of teachers through a reform of the employment structure and strengthening the professional standing of teachers and principals.
• •Responsibly delegating powers to local authorities and school principals, and strengthening the professional and pedagogical independence of teaching teams.

Formulating a five-year plan for developing educational institutions.

• •Formulating a five-year development plan for reducing class sizes, building schools and daycare centers, and fortifying educational institutions in all parts of the country, and ensuring every child the conditions they need to learn, advance and develop.

Ending the funding of the partisan networks: quality state-Haredi education for every Haredi child.

• •Canceling the special status of the Haredi education networks and ending their funding.
• •At the same time, turning state-Haredi education into the main study track in Haredi society.
• •Leading a five-year plan for massive construction of state-Haredi schools, converting private schools into state schools and high-quality teacher training.

Rehabilitating the early-childhood education system.

• •Working to expand the supply of subsidized and supervised frameworks and raise the pay of their staff.
• •Working to improve the quality of early-childhood education and care and bring them in line with the standards in the Western world.