Outrage over regulations that could remove learners from school

Johnathan Paoli

Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre expressed outrage at the Western Cape High Court’s ruling on the regulation of collaboration schools, donor-funded schools, and intervention facilities introduced in the Western Cape Provincial School Education Amendment Act 4 of 2018  

This follows the steady systematic introduction of collaboration and donor-funded schools, which would be granted significant freedom by the new legislation in addition to the establishment of intervention facilities for “serious misconduct: offending learners. 

This would culminate in the removal of a learner from the formal education system for up to a year. 

“EE has consistently advocated for regulatory frameworks that protect the best interests of learners. This formed the basis of our court challenge, which was specifically about the provisions in the Amendment Act around collaboration schools, donor-funded schools, and intervention facilities that were vague, inconsistent with the Constitution and in conflict with the South African