Education
There are dozens of pre-schools, 50 elementary schools, 2 girls' high schools, 3 yeshiva ketanahs, 2 yeshiva gedollahs, and 2 English kollels in Beitar Illit.
Beitar Illit was one of four cities, along with Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, and Modi'in Illit, named in a petition filed with the Israeli High Court in December 2010 by an anti-discrimination group. The petition alleged a pattern of discrimination against Sephardi girls in haredi schools in the cities involving unofficial quotas of no more than 30% of enrollment. A spokesman for the Beitar Illit city government denied the charges, stating that the percentage of Sephardi girls in the school matched the percentage of Sephardim in the settlement.
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