Supplying a child with schoolbooks this year will cost some parents just NIS 280, while others will pay hundreds of shekels more. Everyone agrees it's not fair, but no one is sure where to lay the blame. The law instituting the lending of schoolbooks to pupils by the schools themselves was passed in 2000 to lower the formidable cost to parents, but various obstacles have stood in the way of its implementation. This year 700 schools are joining the 900 already in the program. The 1,600 schools constitute 35 percent of the country's elementary and high schools....
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