Growth of both Arabic and Haredi schoolchildren expected to slow
Globes has some potentially good news for everybody worried about both the influence of Islamism and Haredis in the country:
Belying fear-mongering about the increased proportion of Arab pupils, the Central Bureau of Statistics says that the proportion of Jewish schoolchildren will rise from 73% in 2012 to 74% in 2019, and that the proportion of Arab schoolchildren will decline from 27% to 26%.And if the workforce numbers rise as the Haredis and Arabs make positive steps to join it, that too will be good news.
Within the Jewish community, the Central Bureau of Statistics data show a different picture from conventional wisdom, indicating changes resembling the expected change in the Arab community. The annual growth rate of haredi (ultra-orthodox) children is forecast to slow: from an average annual growth rate of 4.7% in primary education in 2001-12 to 3.6% a year in 2013-19; and from an average annual growth rate of 4% in secondary education to 2.3%. The growth rate of schoolchildren in the state school and religious state school systems is projected to pick up in 2013-19, compared with 2001-12: from 0.34% a year in 2001-12 to 1.43% in primary education; and from minus 0.81% a year in 2001-12 to plus 0.1% in 2013-19 in secondary education.
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