The families of 12 burn victims from the Sheenabad school fire disaster staged a sit-in together with students in front of the president’s office to protest the lack of financial support for their children’s medical bills. The father of one of the victims told Kordpa website that the Ministry of Education has not met […]
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No charges laid in deadly school fire
Tavakol Heydari, the head of the Western Azerbaijan justice department, has announced that no one has been charged for the fire incident at a Sheenabad elementary school.
School fire incident claims second life
Sarina Rasoulzadeh, another victim of the fire that injured 22 students earlier this month, died today, December 28, at Sinai Hospital in Tabriz.
Activists call for minister’s resignation as second student dies
Eighty Kurdish political and civil activists in Iran have called for the resignation of the Minister of Education after a fire accident in an elementary school injured scores of students and, according to reports, has so far claimed two lives.
37 students injured in school fire accident
A fire accident in an elementary school in Western Azerbaijan Province injured 37 students on Wednesday December 5.
Iran To Extend Gender Segregation To School Textbooks
Iran’s Ministry of Education has announced it will soon publish separate school textbooks for boys and girls, creating another area of gender segregation in the Islamic republic.
More than 7 million poverty stricken school drop outs in Iran
According to announcements by the officials of the Ministry of Education in the past few days, the numbers of students in the country have decreased to 12 million 300,000 from last year’s 12 million 800,000 in light of the stable population growth in the past few years, the decrease of the population of students […]
Official Child Laborers More Than 600,000 in Iran
Official reports from Iran indicate that there are more than 600,000 Iranian children who have left school in order to enter the job market. As a result, these children are abused in a variety of ways by their families and profiteers.