at the moment I am looking into control mechanisms the gouvernment uses in different countries to check stainer schools.

What I got is:

In the Netherlands steiner schools have to participate in regular statewide tests (CITO toets) to show that their pupils are learning the same skills in the same time frame, starting in year 3 of their school system (starts with the age of 4).

In the UK there is Ofsted. A non ministerial department of the gouvernment, that does check schools and writes reports.

In France there is MIVILUDES an intern ministerial government agency that checks cultic tendencies an people can report to them when they have a bad experience. They observe anthroposophic organisations for more than 2 decades. In 2024 France made a new law they call “Gatel”, that allows them to make unannounced inspections.

The Swedish Gouvernment does take controlling schools seriously and “Skolinspektionen” is checking out steiner schools regularly for decennia already - as far as I know.

Do you know more from your countries?

Until now I also could not find any serous inspection that had an overall good outcome for Steiner schools.

Any help is welcome. I will dig deeper anyway, but since we have international expertise in this group I would highly appreciate your input.

Alle the best

Lea