APPENDIX B: NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF JEWISH AND ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRAEL

Table 24: Numerical Comparison of Jewish and Arab Education in Israel [update]

	Jewish education	Arab education
Enrolled students (2000-2001) (total number)	77.8% (1,250,000)	22.2% (356,000)
Allocation of teaching hours (1999-2000) (average weekly teaching hours/student)	81.6% (1.84)	18.4% (1.51)
Schools
Average number of pupils/class (1998-1999)	26	30
Average number of children/teacher (1999-2000)	15.5	18.7
Distribution of classrooms (1998)  (total number)	80.5%  (34,747)	19.5%  (8,423)
Schools with libraries (1994-1996)	80.7%	64.4%
Schools with educational counseling (1994-1996)	78.7%	36.2%
Schools with psychological counseling (1994-1996)	83.2%	40.0%
Schools with counseling by a social worker (1994-1996)	64.4%	53.7%
Schools with truant officers (1994-1996)	65.1%	53.7%
Teachers
Teachers with an academic degree (1997-1998)	59.5%	39.7%
Teachers rated "not qualified"	4.1%	7.9%
Primary schools with voluntary in-service training (1994-1995)	87.9%	60.1%
Primary schools with no programs to improve teaching (1994-1995)	6.4%	21.5%
Kindergarten (ages 3-5)
Kindergarten attendance (private, municipal, and state) (1998-1999) age 3 age 4 age 5	89.3% 92.9% 94.0%	22.5% 33.5% 80.7%
Pupils/teaching staff: government kindergartens (1999-2000)	19.8	39.3
Special Education
Distribution of teaching hours (total) (1999-2000)	85.9%	14.1%
Teaching hours for integration (mainstreaming) (1998-1999)	91.6%	8.4%
Special education kindergartens (1998-1999)	484 (91.5%)	45 (8.5%)
Integrated kindergartens (1998-1999)	61 (100%)	0 (0%)
Special education schools (excluding kindergartens) (1998-1999)	222 (83.5%)	44 (16.5%)
Students in primary schools for "handicapped children" (1999-2000)	13,165 (85.4%)	2,253 (14.6%)
Performance
Drop-out rates by age seventeen (1998-1999)	10.4%	31.7%
Bagrut pass rate among all seventeen-year-olds (1999-2000)	45.6%	27.5%
Bagrut pass rate among examinees	63.0%	43.4%
Qualification rate for university admission among all seventeen-year-olds (1999-2000)	40.4%	18.4%
University applicants who were rejected (1998-1999)	16.7%	44.7%
University students studying for first (undergraduate) degree (1998-1999)	91.3%	8.7%
University first degree recipients (1998-1999)	94.3%	5.7%

Sources: Ministry of Education, "Statistics of the Matriculation Examination (Bagrut) 2000 Report," http://www.netvision.net.il/bagrut/netunim2000.htm (accessed on May 10, 2001), pp. 5, 7, 45; State of Israel Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Initial Periodic Report of the State of Israel Concerning the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), February 20, 2001, p. 307; Daphna Golan, Chair, Committee for Closing the Gap, Pedagogical Secretariat, Ministry of Education, Closing the Gaps in Arab Education in Israel: Data About Hebrew-Arab Education; Recommendations of the Committee for Closing the Gap; Protocol of the Meeting of the Directorship, December 13, 2000, December 2000, p. 3; Ministry of Education, Proposed Budget for the Ministry of Education 2001 and Explanations as Presented to the Fifteenth Knesset, no. 11, October 2000, pp. 144, 158; CBS, Survey of Education and Welfare Services 1995/1996: Secondary Schools, Hebrew and Arab Education, (Jerusalem: CBS, May 1999); CBS, Statistical Abstract of Israel 2000, no. 51, tables 22.9, 22.10, 22.11, 22.12, 22.27, 22.28, 22.34, 22.37, 22.39; and CBS, Survey of Education and Welfare Services 1994/1995: Primary and Intermediate Schools, Hebrew and Arab Education, (Jerusalem: CBS, October 1997).