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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Education Minister Yuli Tamir and Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On today, the first day of the 2008-2009 school year, visited schools in Upper Nazareth and Nazareth.
At the Ksulot School, students told Prime Minister Olmert how the New Horizon reforms have changed their attitude to their studies and said that the detailed hours, new electronic equipment and additional study hours have succeeded in greatly improving their marks and rate of progress. The students showed the Prime Minister both their new mathematics and science classrooms and the special classroom for the hours that have been added following the aforesaid reforms.
Prime Minister Olmert continued to the Tewfik Ziad School in Nazareth, where he was also accompanied by Science, Culture and Sports Minister Raleb Majdele. The students showed the Prime Minister a selection of their projects.
Prime Minister Olmert said, inter alia, that, "I am pleased to see the beautiful and advanced schools and to see their students, who aspire to excellence. Such schools – with laboratories that feature the most sophisticated equipment, which foster technological development alongside progress in regular studies – must be in all parts of the country, and this the Government has done by the construction of an additional 8,000 classrooms throughout the country."
Education Minister Tamir paid tribute both to the New Horizon reforms and the dedication of Israel's teachers. Finance Minister Bar-On noted that, "The Olmert government has championed education and there is now a rare window of opportunity to effect about genuine change in the entire education system."
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