Najat Vallaud-Belkacem allocates five million euros to Marseille schools – L’Express

Decay, decay, mold, unhealthy … the condition of some schools regularly Marseille controversy. To remedy this, the Minister of Education Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, visiting Marseille, confirmed Monday that € 5 million of the city policy would be devoted to repairs works of some schools.

In February, the journal Libération had pointed to the state of some schools and Najat Belkacem-Valaud was seized of the case, holding that the situation was ” not worthy of the Republic “, despite the denials of Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. “We will need if the envelope of the policy of the city of 5 million euro available to financially support this work,” she had promised. Accusing the municipality to “minimize” the facts in a letter dated February 4, the government had decided to refer the Prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône to “evaluate” and “brush up” these institutions.

330 teaching positions creations

On Monday, the Minister also welcomed the cooperation with the city on this and this ” top out “after a sharp skirmish between the government and the mayor of Marseilles. “We managed to find answers to the scale of the challenge, though, of course, all the difficulties can not be resolved in a few weeks,” said the minister, after a progress update on the situation with mayor and the rector.

On Monday morning, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem confirmed that the state would “unlock a budget of € 5 million under the credit policy of the city, of which 3 million are immediately mobilized and ‘arrow’ on identified needs. ” She added that 330 new teaching positions would be created in the coming year in Marseille including 150 primary schools.

A phone line for emergency interventions

During the February vacation, then those Easter, the municipality launched urgently a series of works. She also vote in the last municipal council an effort 5 million additional euros for repairs in schools in 2016 and promises to do the same in 2017 and 2018.

“All of a suddenly we realized that in a number of schools, there was work that would have deserved to be realized. it is even sometimes a bit of a surprise for me, “admitted Monday Mayor Jean -Claude Gaudin, “since then, work has been done.” He also recalled the recent launch of a line “Hello Hall” dedicated to school officials for “urgent technical interventions.”