In 2002 the Flemish government tried to address the high social inequality in education. The government chose to implement a policy specifically targeting students with a disadvantaged background by identifying them through a number of ‘equal education indicators’.
As in many European countries, we are going through a unique budgetary crisis with a progressive loss of the control over our public finances in the form of adouble snowball effect.
In the Netherlands an innovative procedure has been chosen. Instead of saltless compromises there is an exchange of desiderata of each party. Also in our country enough taboos exist to be broken.
