early tracking occurs at age compared to the oecd average of and differentiation of educational pathways has increased research shows a strong relation between tracks chosen and socioeconomic background at age of the student cohort mostly from high socioeconomic backgrounds enters gymnasia the czech school inspectorate and research on roma find that roma children participate less although they are ensured access by law and that czech students from disadvantaged backgrounds low socioeconomic levels and roma students are more likely to drop out eight working groups have been set up to implement various tasks in the context of the economic crisis the proportion of yearsolds not in education and not employed increased to but remained below the oecd average of see figure