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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 ...

The institution, Averroès school group in Lille, has denied claims about its funding and courses.

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 s...

At the Averroès high school in Lille, staff and pupils are worried about their future after French authorities announced they would end state subsidies over management problems and teaching they judged…

France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and questionable teaching practices, a local official said on Monday, the latest in what some... -December 11, 2023 at 01:13 pm EST - MarketScreener

Private school Averroes, the first Muslim high school to open in mainland France in 2003 in the northern city of Lille, has more than 800 pupils. | World News

France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and questionable teaching practices, a local official said on Monday, the latest in what some rights groups say is a wider crackdown on Muslims.

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and quest...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and quest...

France is to end funding for its biggest Muslim high school on the grounds of administrative failures and questionable teaching practices, a local official said on Monday, the latest in what some rights groups say is a wider crackdown on Muslims. Private school Averroes, the first Muslim high school to open in mainland France in 2003 in the northern city of Lille, has more than 800 pupils and has been under contract with the state since 2008. But in an October report seen by Reuters, the inter...