(Dutch News) All 10 requests to open new Islamic secondary schools last year were reportedly turned down, according to figures from education body DUO.
The NOS broadcaster says that the requests all came from four cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, and they were refused because the applicants could not fulfil norms to show they would receive enough pupils.
There is a legal minimum of 732 pupils to receive public funding for a school, and inspectors apparently judged whether the potential schools would meet these numbers by looking at the number of similar primary schools in their neighbourhoods.
