Franceโ€™s schools are in crisis โ€“ and it has nothing to do with pupilsโ€™ dress

Chronic underfunding has led to a record exodus of teachers but the government is using populist policy as a cheap distractionShortly before schools opened for the new term in September, Unicef France issued an alert that almost 2,000 pupils were homel…

French court upholds ban on girls wearing abayas in schools

State council rejected complaints that ban was discriminatory and could incite hatred against MuslimsFranceโ€™s top administrative court has upheld a government ban on girls in state schools wearing abayas, rejecting complaints that it was discriminatory…

French schools send home dozens of girls wearing Muslim abayas

Girls who refused to remove banned garment given letter saying โ€˜secularism is not a constraint, it is a libertyโ€™, says ministerOn the first day of the new academic year French schools sent home dozens of girls for refusing to remove their abayas, the e…

Muslims are already excluded from French political life: thatโ€™s the real issue in the school abayas row | Kaoutar Harchi

Abaya-wearing girls are seen not simply as students, but as envoys of global Islamism conspiring against the French nationWhen Gabriel Attal, the French education minister, went on national television for an interview to mark the start of the new schoo…

Macronโ€™s abaya ban nods to the right, splits the left

But the ban on the Islamic clothing in schools enters tricky legal territory.

French left divided over abaya ban in schools

The ban on the abaya in schools, announced by French Education Minister Gabriel Attal, has highlighted the left’s divisions over secularism and its implementation, while the radical left has vowed to take the decision to court.