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So many public schools resemble one another so closely that it may be more or less a matter of chance which ones end up on the special list the government is preparing.

It is one of the government’s major initiatives. But chance could determine which schools become part of it

We still do not know which 100 schools will get a share of the special pot of money the government plans to set aside in the national budget. Arkivfoto: Cecilie Rolvung
We still do not know which 100 schools will get a share of the special pot of money the government plans to set aside in the national budget. Arkivfoto: Cecilie Rolvung

As one of the government’s flagship initiatives in education, it will soon designate 100 schools where students perform particularly poorly in Danish and math.

Starting next school year, they will be included in a project allocated 200 million kroner in the national budget, intended to raise academic standards.

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