Editorial: Le Monde

• The crisis in the French educational system is accentuated by underperformance in international comparisons.
• The 17.6% of students schooled in the private education sector do not sufficiently contribute to compensating social inequalities.
• Private institutions often deviate from social inclusion practices, with only 16% of their students from disadvantaged families, compared to 40% in public schools.
• Current practices in private education, which is 96% Catholic, are exacerbating the weaknesses of the education system.
• The private education system suffers from a lack of transparency in its funding and insufficient oversight.
• There is an elitist bias in private education and its lack of financial transparency does not absolve the public sector of the need for modernization.

Conclusion: In order to promote educational justice, resources allocated to private institutions should be modulated according to the social characteristics and academic needs of students, expulsions should be controlled, and the traceability of public funds should be guaranteed.

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