Crisis-hit Muslim school bailed out with state funding

by Tim Ross
Evening Standard
October 28, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1010/crisis-hit-muslim-school-bailed-out-with-state

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A Muslim school has been given state funding to save it from closure.

Teachers at Iqra primary in Brixton have been working for free because of a cash crisis. But now it has received £250,000 from Lambeth council and joined the state sector.

It has become one of six state-funded Muslim primaries in England. Pupils will follow the national curriculum but have lessons in Quranic studies and be taught in accordance with their beliefs.

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