Lebanon to Open Schools in Sep. despite Economic Meltdown

Lebanese Minister of Education announced, on Monday, that public schools are set to open in September despite the economic crisis hitting the country.

Minister of Education Tarek Majzoub said public schools will open on September 27, while private learning shall start by early October.

"Schools must not close. We decided to return to in-person learning in schools, high schools, institutes, and universities," Majzoub told a news conference.

Lebanon is in the throes of a financial collapse that the World Bank says may be among the worst in the world since the mid-1800s.

Years of corruption and bad policies have left the state deeply in debt and the central bank unable to continue to support the currency, as it has for decades, due to declining foreign cash flow in the country.

Currently, the economy is in tatters, leaving shortages of food, energy, fuel and medicine.