Czech Republic Four years after landmark judgment, urgent action needed to stop illegal segregation of Romani children into special education

14 Nov 2011 | discrimination roma

‘ERRC’ reports that rights groups require the Council of Europe to take action against continuing illegal discrimination of Romani school children. Romani children are still being disproportionately channeled into “special schools” where they are segregated from other students. The European Court had told the Czech government to fix the problem, but the Czech education system remains broken. The official data on the number of Romani children in special education, published in 2010, showed that in some parts of the country, Romani children were still 27 times more likely to be directed into segregated “practical schools". “It is unacceptable that segregation is still the norm in Czech education”, said Dezideriu Gergely, Executive Director of the ERRC.

Source : ERRC