2008 Volume 46 Issue 2 Pages 289-298
The nursery school in France generally has a characteristic of a very high ratio of attendance which is 100% of three to five year old children and enrollment of two year old children in the educational priority area. This is partially a result of legislation which assures the access of all infants to such schools. The law introduced by Haby (1975) established the assurance of access for all five year old children and set a goal to compensate for inequality for all nursery schools. Another law introduced by Jospin (1989) resolved that all three year old children in all areas of France should have equal access to nursery schools, and created an affirmative action plan for two year old children to fight against the inequality caused by their social environment.
