Czechia still funnels Roma children into reduced-curriculum classes years after Europe's rights court ruled it discriminatory, and has no ban on school segregation.
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In D.H. and Others v. Czech Republic (2007) the European Court of Human Rights found that Roma children were discriminated against by being far more likely to be assessed as having 'mild mental disabilities' and placed in special schools. On 11 June 2026 the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers noted 'with serious concern the persistent lack of progress' for Roma children at all levels of education and urged the authorities to set measurable goals and timeframes and to consider a legal prohibition of ethnic segregation. The Committee's notes record that in 2024 Roma pupils were 3.9% of primary pupils but 23.2% of those taught under the reduced-outcomes programme (23.1% in 2023), and that Roma made up over half the pupils in 76 primary schools and over 90% in 16.
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