Why do many children in Comoros receive little or no formal schooling?

Although education is officially compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 16 in Comoros, many children receive little or no formal schooling due to the chronic underfunding of the state-run public school system.1

While the country provides instruction through both traditional Islamic schools focused on the Qurʾān and state-run schools modeled after the French system, these systemic financial limitations hinder consistent access to formal education for a large percentage of the population.1