those with French knowledge. Since most young Algerians had a poor command of French and were in Arabized school streams, they enrolled in Arabic-language university departments such as Islamic law and Arabic literature and were exposed to Islamist point of views. Algiers had many unofficially bilingual primary and secondary schools and Benrabah said that the elite closure practice was "most visible in Algiers". The Algerian government, in 1988, officially prohibited Algerian nationals and children of mixed Algerian and French people from attending "French Mission of Algeria" schools. President Chadli Bendjedid ruled that Algerian nationals were not permitted to attend all-French schools. The Algiers French lycée moved from one neighbourhood to another. The Lycée Cheikh Bouamama (), originally called the Lycée Descartes, took in students from the tchitchi (children of wealthy) backgrounds instead of bohi ("rejects"). When it was nationalized it served members of the educational, military, and political elites. After Chadli's decree, the school had a secret program which placed higher emphasis on French than other Algerian secondary schools did. Many students in the programme attended universities abroad after graduation. In 1999 the Algerian authorities conducted a survey which stated that 75% of the population supported teaching scientific school subjects in the French language. In the middle of March 2001 the National Commission for the Reform of the Educational System (CNRSE according to its French name) proposed that French would be reintroduced in grade two of the primary cycle, serving 6-7 year olds, instead of grade four, serving 8-9 year olds, and that scientific subjects in secondary school should be taught in French. Therefore, students would be biliterate in French and Arabic instead of having French as a subject. In 2002 the opponents to the bilingual educational proposal declared a fatwa against the pro-bilingual supporters. The reforms were intended to be implemented in September 2001 but the Ministry of the Interior suspended them on 3 September 2001. By 2008 the Algerian government began reintroducing French in the school system. References Benrabah, Mohamed. "Language maintenance and spread: French in Algeria." International Journal of Francophone Studies. Intellect Ltd. Volume 10 Numbers 1 and 2. p. 193-215. English language. Accessible on EBSCOHost. Benrabah, Mohamed. "Language-in-Education Planning in Algeria: Historical Development and Current Issues." Language Policy, June 2007. Volume 6, Issue 2. p. 225-252. . Available at Springer Link. Berger, Anne-Emanuelle. Algeria in Others' Languages (Cornell French studies series). Cornell University Press, 2002. ,