This study analyses "La politique de l’Education Prioritaire" (EP policy) in France which has
been considered as a model of "Policy of Educational Welfare Priority Zone Plan" in Korea.
Above all, this analysis is focused on the reformed program "Eclair" which has been planned
and carried out since 2010. The last 30 years of the French EP have been marked by
controversy, a continuously re-evaluated, amended and re-activated policy until it has become a
'driver' for all Educational Welfare policy in France. The merit of EP policy is that it is
considered as both a social achievement and an educational service supported by the
educational institutions in France. On the one hand, there still has been a dilemma on how to
overcome the school result's gab between EP Zone and non EP Zone and how to improve the
educational network system. The latest reformed EP program ‘Eclair' makes an attempt to solve
these questions via the improvement of basic school level, the strengthening of personal aid for
learning, a more flexible cooperation between human resources, the encouragement for
participation between schools and local government and finally the promotion of the
interdisciplinary education. There is a lesson to be learned from the French EP policy for the
Korean Educational Welfare policy: EP policy is a political tool which is organized and
managed by a ministerial and local governmental cooperation in order to set up a local
educational community.