Secretary Sander Dekker of Education pulls nine million, just like two years ago. He believes it is envisaged that the project ultimately secondary schools in their own budget.

Students are supervised by teachers and coaches study, which can also be hired externally. They can occur in up to two weeks they remain seated. The school decides who takes part in the summer program and sets the transition key together.

More and more high schools have a summer school where students can eliminate the educational disadvantage. This year there are 310, more than 13,000 students sacrifice there – voluntarily or not – part of their summer vacation for. Besides the importance of the student factor is that repeating expensive for the school.

,, Retention is very demotivating for many students, ” says Dekker Saturday. ,, Often a pupil remains on one or two compartments. It’s a shame if someone needs to do a whole year. More than four out of five students who participate in a summer school, still go to the next class. “

Summer Schools provide according to his ministry a significant contribution to reducing the percentage of repeaters. Now 5.3 percent of students in education should put for doubling a year.

The first experiments were with the summer school in 2013 and 2014.