The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed constitutional challenges brought by Equal Education and the South African Democratic Teachers' Union against Western Cape laws governing collaboration schools. The contested provisions covered donor-funded public schools and the provincial school evaluation authority. According to the report, the court's ruling upholds the provincial framework, which allows private donors and partners to support the running of certain public schools in the province. The decision ends the legal bid by the education lobby groups and union to have the laws struck down.
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