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Legal complaint against space problems in Brussels schools
The citizens’ organisation Ieder Kind een Stoel (A Chair for Every Child) has announced its intention to file a legal complaint against the government of Flanders because of too little capacity for pupils in Brussels’ Dutch-speaking schools. The organisation has launched a crowdfunding action to finance the lawsuit.
The government recently allocated an extra €30 million for the construction of schools in Brussels. “But this is not enough to provide a place to every child, and the government has admitted that,” said Els Lenaerts of Ieder Kind een Stoel.
The organisation said that it had a constructive discussion yesterday with education minister Hilde Crevits. “We have examined possible solutions together and have the feeling that the minister is taking us seriously,” said Lenaerts. “She wants to improve the situation, but the budget is insufficient for the moment.”
The organisation also hopes to discuss the issue with Guy Vanhengel, responsible for education in the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), which represented Flemish interests in Brussels. “We have requested a meeting but haven’t received a reaction yet,” said Lenaerts.
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The Planning Board has decided that the down-county area, where the overcrowded Rosemary Hills School is located, needs to be more densely populated. But the schools are very overcrowded and, what's worse, there's no obvious place even to put new schools. Stop developing the down-county area unless the developers pay for more schools and other infrastructure! The developers are getting rich at the expense of both residents and local businesses.
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