France's largest Muslim school threatened with closure amid scrutiny of funding, courses
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A student writes on a blackboard during a class at Averroes high school in Lille, northern France on Sept. 28, 2023. (Sameer Al-doumy/AFP via Getty Images)(PARIS) Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year, the Averroès school group in Lille, which is also the largest private Muslim secondary school in France, is threatened with closure.
An advisory commission chaired by Georges-François Leclerc, prefect of the Hauts-de-France region, voted on Nov. 27 for the termination of the financing contract linking the high school branch of Averroès to the state since 2008, leaving 473 high-school and 352 middle-school students, as well as 110 employees, uncertain about their future.
Several prominent voices have denounced the commission, with president of the school s parents association, Mohamed Daoudi, arguing it was "grotesque," as the prefect was both "judge and jury."
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