📢JOINT STATEMENT📢
SECTION27, Equal Education, Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) and Legal Resources Centre call on Parliament of RSA to reinstate clauses in the BELA Bill designed to ensure school language and admissions policies are equitable! Read our statement here:

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Inside Issue 43 of the Education Monitoring Brief

📢IN THE SPOTLIGHT: NCOP AMENDS BASIC EDUCATION LAWS AMENDMENT (BELA) BILL, REMOVING KEY OVERSIGHTS PROVISIONS

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.Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) has launched an urgent court application against the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) & the Department of Basic Education. Representing Equal Education & 5 parents, they are seeking immediate placement of unplaced learners.
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📸 Live from the High Court: parents and learners have joined us as our team demands accountability!

✊ We demand a school place for EVERY learner in the Western Cape!

👆 Let’s make one thing clear: we will NEVER stop defending the rights of all learners.

💛 Children deserve BETTER!

🖤 Learners deserve BETTER!

A day of multiple shocks and sorrows!

From comforting parents crying outside of the courtroom who had rested their hope in this process and in this movement; to getting clarity from movement lawyers on the grounds of such a careless decision from an acting judge;

Our fight to ensure equitable access to education continues! No learner should be without a school space for over 4 months- 30 years after the ushering in of a transformative constitution which recognises an unqualified right to basic education!

[📍 #SofundaSonke ] Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) Attorney Yolisa shares the outcome of our appearance in the WC High Court today.

📢'The learners are still being deprived of their right to basic education. The best interests of the child is still not being considered.'

[Response to ECDOE Fundile Gade] Equal Education (EE) finds the MECs views, and the manner in which it was expressed, unfortunate. EE continues to support the ECDoE, and request the support of the ECDoE in our work to improve access to education rights in the Eastern Cape.

Our attorney, Yolisa will on eNCA at 09h30 talking about the case against the Western Cape Government for their failure to provide school places for learners in the Metro East district

[Joint statement 📢📰🖊️] Equal Education and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) head to court to ensure the immediate placement of all out-of-school learners in the Western Cape
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Read our full statement here: equaleducation.org.za/2024/04/23/joi…

Learner placement in the Western Cape remains a long-standing systemic issue that the WCEDNews continuously fails to adequately plan for. The 2024 academic year has continued along this trend, particularly in the Metro East Education District. #SofundaSonke

Therefore, parents and caregivers along with EE and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), have no other choice but to approach the courts to secure the placement of the many learners who, more than two weeks into the second school term, are still at home without access to education. #SofundaSonke

Court case built on advocacy, and urgency of the people! In 2024 we still fight for school places for children from area such as Khayelitsha! While the WC government continues to feed its political ego while failing children of Khayelitsha and the surrounding areas
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In 2022 the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), alongside six parents and guardians, decided to take the WCED, Head of the Education District (HOD) and the Director of the Metro East Education District to court for their failure to place learners in schools. #SofundaSonke

The decision to go to court was motivated by parents being turned away from the Metro East Education District and being told that schools were oversubscribed (full) when trying to seek help in finding a place for their children. #SofundaSonke