Education Policy Program
Education is Israel’s primary national infrastructure. As a primary factor in providing equal opportunities for full realization of individual abilities, it is vitally important to understand which policies work and which do not. The Education Policy Program concentrates on these issues while examining achievements, budgets, regional and ethnic characteristics, and a host of other related issues.
- Policy Program Fellows
- Chair
- Yossi Shavit
- Fellows
- Khaled Abu-Asba
- Ismail Abu-Saad
- Chaim Adler
- Shlomit Amichai
- Hanna Ayalon
- Shlomo Beck
- Gila Ben Har
- Yair Berson
- Carmel Blank
- Nachum Blass
- Ofer Brandes
- Nora Cohen
- Avital Darmon
- Yigal Douchan
- Yariv Feniger
- Isaac Friedman
- Yossi Gidanian
- Eli Isenberg
- Meir Kraus
- David Maagan
- Zemira Mevarech
- Yael Navon
- David Nevo
- Sephi Pumpian
- Dmitri Romanov
- Analia Schlosser
- Rita Sever
- Yehudit Shalvi
- Kemal Shufniyah
- Sidney Strauss
- Rami Sulimani
- Zvi Yanai
- Miri Yemini
- Michael Yodovitsky
- Noam Zussman
Implementation of the Compulsory Education Law for Ages 3-4: Challenges and Recommendations
Amongst the many recommendations of the Trajtenberg Committee, the central one in the field of education was a call for the immediate implementation of the Compulsory Education Law for ages 3-4.
The current paper looks at the practical implications of the decision to fully implement the law. It presents a methodology for projecting the number of children who will be added to the preschool system, as well as their distribution by sector and type of school regulation. It also calculates the number of new preschools that will have to be built, as well as the number of new preschool teachers who will have to be hired and the accompanying cost.
One of the main findings of the study is that the majority of the new children who will enter the public system live in the more well-established cities, principally Tel-Aviv, or in Jerusalem (mainly in East Jerusalem).
The final section of the work presents some suggestions that could reduce the expected costs significantly, as well as initial data on the implementation of the law thus far.