{"id":233827,"date":"2026-05-20T16:19:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-school-fees-block-childrens-access-to-education\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:19:49","slug":"liberia-school-fees-block-childrens-access-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-school-fees-block-childrens-access-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: School Fees Block Children&#8217;s Access to Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Monrovia \u2014 <em>Eliminate Registration Fees; Expand School Grants; Improve Education Quality<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Registration fees and other costs to attend public schools in Liberia are a major barrier to education, forcing many children to delay enrollment, miss school, or drop out altogether, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">The 75-page report, &#8220;&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/node\/393541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Without Education, There Will Be Nothing&#8217;: School Fees and Other Barriers to Education in Liberia<\/a>,&#8221; documents that mandatory fees&#8211;despite a legal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200582.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Eliminate Registration Fees; Expand School Grants; Improve Education Quality Registration fees and other costs to attend public schools in Liberia are a major barrier to education, forcing many children to delay enrollment, miss school, or drop out altogether, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 75-page report, &#8220;&#8216;Without Education, There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[6450,258,256,9056,10169,1632,11432,4712,1107,257,4362,254],"class_list":["post-233827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-block","tag-childrens","tag-education","tag-fees","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}