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Hungary - Advocating with policymakers and lawmakersThe Chance for Children Foundation will use the Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma report on Hungary to advocate for policy change in the country, liaising with the Parliament's new Subcommittee of Equality and Integration of Schools and the education committee. Project Title: Carried out by: Timeline: Output:
Project description The Equal Access to Quality Education for Roma (EAQER) report can be very useful as a basis for advocacy, and the Chance for Children Foundation will use it for trying to influence policy change in Hungary. The Hungarian Parliament has set up a sub-committee to investigate the school segregation of Roma (The Subcommittee of Equality and Integration of Schools). This committee, thanks partially to the CFCF’s successful campaign in Kerepes, held its first -informal- hearing in February 2008. In the case this committee does not meet regularly, the advocacy team will meet with the education committee. The CFCF continues to closely follow the Subcommittee on Equality’s work, however, using the Roma Education report as a basis for dialogue. As part of the advocacy activities, materials are being prepared to be submitted to the Subcommittee. This material is based on the most important recommendations of the EAQER Report in the form of pre-drafted amendments to specific existing legislation. These amendments will be accompanied by brief explanatory statements (also based on the report's findings). An expert, Balazs Tóth, has been identified who is writing the drafts and will also be prepared to present them to the sub-committee. As a comprehensive reform of the Public Education Act in Hungary seems at this point unlikely, the project includes these drafts of amendments to the Act as concrete suggestions for change. This approach looks to five or six points (on reforming special schools, reforming data collection, reestablishing the school inspectorate, introducing sanctions, etc.) in the body of legislation where changing a few words might make a real difference. For example, when talking about amending the legislation of special schools, one might consider proposing to make the normative quota per certified child (150 – 200% of the normal quota) "tied", i.e. only usable for the purposes of the establishment where that child is enrolled. The present system allows the Education Authority (the Municipal Government) to use the funds as it wishes, if necessary to build sewers. With a proposed small change, a huge incentive to assessing children as having special needs could be removed. (This has been tried before, but failed). The CFCF is not alone in their pursuits: Some Liberal MPs have tried to have an amendment accepted that would allow the High Court to withdraw state funding from schools found segregating and persisting in their ways. |
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