(Dutch News) Education minister Arie Slob has been told by the highest Dutch administrative court that it cannot stop funding for Amsterdam’s only Islamic secondary school.
Slob wanted to stop funding for the Cornelius Haga Lyceum because the school had failed to appoint an acceptable interim administrator.
But the Council of State said that Slob would have been breaking his ministry’s own rules if he switched off the funding in one go. The rules state that funding can only be stopped altogether after winding down [a] process lasting six months.
Slob said he would stop the school’s funding in October following the publication of [a] report by school inspectors which said the school was failing to teach pupils the values of democracy and the rule of law.
