A large majority in Oslo City Council will decide on Wednesday to reduce the city’s fifteen boroughs to eight. Six of the eight “new” boroughs will be larger than Fredrikstad, Norway’s tenth-largest city. The merged borough of Alna, Grorud and Stovner alone will have a larger population than the municipality of Drammen.
Schjøtt-Pedersen has handed the Progress Party (FrP) a winning issue: the decline in Norway’s schools is now too severe to hide. Government minister Kari Nessa Nordtun offered no remedy, arguing that the problem extends across Western Europe and reflects a broader civic malaise. According to the Office of the Auditor General, roughly one-third of pupils in compulsory education lack adequate reading and writing skills after years of schooling.
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