The Tel Aviv-Yaffo municipality offers its residents a high-quality, egalitarian educational system which provides progressive services to some 60,000 local children and youth aged 3 to 28 years old – secular and religious, Arabs and Jews, children and migrant workers and new immigrants, both in regular and special education.

In the educational system in Tel Aviv – Yaffo, about 8800 children attend 305 kindergartens, about 23’000 attend 73 elementary schools and about 20’000 attend 24 high schools. Apart from the school services it is required to provide by law, the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality also operates day-school centers which make it possible for pupils and students to experience structured educational and social activity until the evening hours. To this end it provides hot meals to 1,600 pupils and students and operates 56 classes for supplementary study and preparation for matriculation examinations, as well as additional study centers to help pupils and students facing difficulties. This service is an integral component of the high-quality, egalitarian educational system provided by the municipality to the city’s tens of thousands of pupils and students.

Tel-Aviv-Yaffo: From upper left: Tel Aviv’s skyline at night, Azrieli Center, Dizengoff Square, Jaffa Clock Tower, Tel Aviv beachfronthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yaffo emphasizes persistence of approach and continues in its efforts to maintain the decreasing trend already achieved in the number of dropouts from the school system. It also invests in improving educational achievement levels and increasing the proportion of students who successfully complete their high school matriculation examinations.Both in the kindergartens and the schools, offers supplementary programs in basic skills – including the Hebrew language, mathematics, English and science, as well as a variety of subjects to foster excellence at all age levels in order to make it possible for pupils and students to realize their potential. Additional educational programs deal with preventing dangerous behaviors and fostering optimal environmental conditions, as well as empowerment and leadership development in order to increase the degree of involvement and commitment of students and pupils to a variety of subjects and values, such as the environment. A unique program – Enlisting with Values – which have developed in cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces Educational Corps, offers twelfth grade students special tools for decision making and moral – ethical thinking on the eve of their induction into military service.

In the context of this education toward values approach, the municipality plans to begin a new program of enhancing heritage awareness and national identity through contact with Jews abroad. This program will become an integral component of the curriculum. A special program to foster Hebrew culture in Israel’s first Hebrew city will incorporate components of Jewish culture, Hebrew language and creativity, Zionism and the Land of Israel.

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