Candidates' school plans Funds, classes and teachers

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Liran Kogehinof brings together Naama Lazimi, Merav Cohen, Devorah Sharifian Bachar and Mor Dekel to explain their parties' education plans; current coalition parties sent no representative. The report asks why the portfolio has gained electoral importance. The candidates debate core-curriculum conditions for Haredi-school funding, reductions or withdrawal of funding and reinvestment; Cohen proposes doubling funds invested in Haredi children. They discuss teacher salaries, working conditions, vacation schedules, local-authority holiday programs, principal autonomy, smaller classes and teacher retention. Lazimi proposes a NIS 12,000 starting salary and a long-term construction and investment plan. Dekel stresses violence prevention and possible parent sanctions; Cohen favors higher teacher-entry standards. Kogehinof cites this week's education report on Israel's second-place primary and third-place secondary classroom crowding, teachers leaving and low pay, and compares coalition pledges, union policy and Kisch's Jewish-values emphasis. These are proposals and comparative findings, not enacted reforms; the source's ambiguous wording of Cohen's funding condition is not silently repaired.

Kan convenes Naama Lazimi, Merav Cohen, Devorah Sharifian Bachar and Mor Dekel to present their parties' education plans; coalition parties send no representative. They discuss core-curriculum funding, investment, pay, staffing, classes, principal autonomy, holidays and violence prevention. Lazimi proposes a NIS 12,000 starting teacher salary. These are campaign proposals, not enacted reforms or an OECD-directed policy decision. Cohen's funding-condition wording remains ambiguous in the source.