Summary
Officials announced Thursday that they had reached an agreement over funding issues that had stalled the start of the school year for non-Lebanese children attending afternoon classes.
The classes had originally been slated to start Thursday, but Education Minister Akram Chehayeb announced Tuesday that the start of the school year would be delayed due to funding issues.
Since 2015, international donors have given about $120 million a year to support school enrollment for about 450,000 children in Lebanon's public schools -- both for Lebanese and non-Lebanese.
An increasing number of Lebanese students shifting from private to public schools as a result of economic difficulties has pushed more Syrian students from the regular morning shift classes to the second shift.
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