Many schools still destroyed as new academic year to start in NE Syria
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – About three hundred and forty eight schools are destroyed by war and are still out of service, as the preparations for the new academic year in northeast Syria have started, co-chair of the Education Board, Rajab al-Mushrif, told North Press, on Monday.
Late in August, the Education Board in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) passed a decision to start the new academic year of 2022-2023 on September 11.
Al-Mushrif said that there are 4.700 schools affiliated with the Education Board distributed in the areas run by the AANES where 42.000 teachers operate.
The number of students studying at these schools is 860.000, according to al-Mushrif.
He stressed that the number of schools damaged by the war is big. One hundred and sixty eight schools are still partially damaged while 180 schools are completely destroyed.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.