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Can you be a good education minister and send your children to private schools at the same time? This is the question facing France’s newly appointed French Minister of Education, Amélie Oudea-Castera, who, just three days after taking office, is already facing her first controversy. Pressure over her decision to send her children to a private school has overshadowed President Emmanuel Macron’s attempt to kick off his second term with a cabinet reshuffle. It all began last Friday when, when asked by the press about her children’s schooling, she justified the decision by saying that it was “fru…

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