意大利总理焦尔吉娅·梅洛尼的内阁周四通过了一项法令，禁止在学校穿着罩袍和尼卡布面纱，并限制每班意大利语掌握不佳的学生人数。
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet adopted a decree law Thursday banning burqas and niqabs in schools and capping the number of students with a poor command of Italian per class.
梅洛尼在社交媒体上写道，该法令引入了“每班意大利语掌握不达标的学生比例上限为30%，提供更多学习意大利语的工具，以及在学校禁止穿着罩袍和尼卡布面纱”。
It introduces "A 30% cap on the number of students in a class who do not have an adequate command of Italian, more tools for learning our language, and a ban on the burqa and niqab in schools," Meloni wrote on social media.
如果孩子在学校严重难以融入，将联系社会服务部门，并强制父母参加免费意大利语课程。
If a child seriously struggles to integrate at school, social services will be called, and the parents will be obliged to attend free Italian lessons.
不遵守规定将面临最高1000欧元（约合1140美元）的罚款。意大利是移民前线国家，融合问题是明年大选前的热门竞选议题。
Failure to comply will be punished with a fine of up to 1,000 euros ($1,140). Italy is a frontline country for migration and integration is a hot campaign issue ahead of next year's general election.
救助儿童会警告称，强迫儿童仅因国籍或意大利语水平有限而转学或入读与同龄人不同的学校，将“制造‘优等生’和‘劣等生’”。
Save the Children warned that forcing children to change schools or enrol in a different institution from their peers simply because of their nationality or limited proficiency in Italian would "create 'first-class' and 'second-class' students".
但教育部长朱塞佩·瓦尔迪塔拉表示，“语言能力不足……阻碍了教育进步”。他对记者说：“家长参与孩子的教育历程对学业成功至关重要。”
But Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said "inadequate language proficiency... hinders educational progress". "Parental participation in their child's educational path is fundamental for academic success", he told journalists.
瓦尔迪塔拉称，意大利有3.4万个班级的外国学生比例超过30%。
Valditara said there were 34,000 school classes in Italy in which over 30% of the students are foreign.
但大多数此类班级不会受新法律影响，该法律针对的是新到达的学生，而非在意大利出生或上过幼儿园的学生。
But most of those would be not be affected by the new law, which targets new arrivals rather than those born in Italy or who attended kindergarten.
2010年，一份部长级备忘录曾规定每班外国学生比例不超过30%。
The 30% limit on the number of foreign students per class was established in a ministerial memorandum in 2010.
但该限制具有灵活性，对于具备足够语言技能的外国学生（如在意大利出生的外国学生）可适当放宽，而对于意大利语掌握较差的外国学生则可适当收紧。
But the limit was flexible, and could be raised in cases involving foreign students with adequate language skills, such as foreign students born in Italy, or lowered when foreign students have a poor command of Italian.
反对党领袖埃利·施莱因指责政府“以牺牲儿童为代价发动新一轮猎巫行动”。
Opposition leader Elly Schlein accused the government of "a new witch hunt at the expense of children".
梅洛尼在内阁会议后的电视采访中表示，禁穿罩袍“是安全问题”。
The burqa ban was "a matter of security", Meloni said in a television interview after the cabinet meeting.
她说：“当一名女性——更糟糕的是一名年轻女孩——被迫遮住面容时，她就被剥夺了基本权利，也被剥夺了人们常高声呼吁的融入社会的权利。”7月，国家未来党呼吁在学校严厉打击罩袍的使用。
"When a woman — or worse, a young girl — is forced to cover her face, she is being denied fundamental rights and the very integration that is so often loudly championed," she said. A crackdown on the use of burqas in schools was called for in July by the National Future (FN) party.
国家未来党不属于执政联盟，其立场比梅洛尼的政党更偏右，已成为主要挑战者，自2月成立以来民调支持率大幅上升。
The FN, which is not part of the governing coalition, is further to the right than Meloni's and has emerged as a major challenger, rising sharply in the polls since launching in February.