EXCLUSIVE. “Our children are being misused as a bargaining chip for real estate”: community education is buying municipal schools on the assembly line | Education

Municipal schools are increasingly disappearing in Flemish cities and municipalities. That’s because community education (GO!) is taking over primary schools. From Knokke to Leuven: in the last five years, no fewer than eleven municipalities have decided to sell their schools to GO!. And these acquisitions are often associated with a major real estate deal, according to research by our editors. Does community education seduce local authorities with real estate in exchange for schools? This is what we know about the deals between the GO! and the municipalities.


Evi De Witte










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