per cent of the children are in school, three quarters on the continuous track in 12th grade. The corresponding figures … for Roma children are only 60 and 40 per cent, respectively. Drop-outs and grade retentions are especially frequent in … secondary school career, but the relation is different among the children of Roma and uneducated families, indicating the …

children complete the maturity examination (“eretttsegi”) and opens the road to college, instead of stopping at 8 grades of …