Vera Tur is satisfied. The director of the Bellevue school in the II th arrondissement of Marseille, has just escort Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, the Minister of Education, at the door of his elementary school after breakfast very encouraging Marseille between principals and all education stakeholders. “it did us good, says smiling director. he was told all that was wrong in our schools. Working conditions, lack of staff, wages, time for extracurricular activities that do not work … the minister has heard us, we hope that things will change. “
They have already evolved since the outbreak of the controversy over the status of Marseille public schools. A controversy twists: after the publication in November of the letter from a teacher of the northern districts, denouncing working conditions and the calamitous state of his class, after the offended reaction of the Town Hall face that Libération had described in a “shame of the Republic” after the offensive of the Minister of Education, who had requested a report on the situation to the prefect, after the reversal of the town hall had finally admitted malfunctions, time was on Monday at happy ending, way final banquet.
Before the luncheon collective, the Minister, accompanied by Hélène Geoffroy, the Secretary of State of the City, was stopped in the prefecture to make a progress report on the situation of schools and announce the measures taken by each party. According to the census conducted by the state services in 444 settlements Marseille, “114 schools have already been identified as requiring different importance of work.” Some have already been incurred during the holiday February and April. In addition to this emergency work, the municipality has decided to release € 5 million additional budget for the year 2016 for new projects. The same amount will be on the table in 2017 and 2018. “I also wanted the State to take its responsibilities” said Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, announcing that 5 million euro additional schools would be devoted to Marseilles via an endowment “urban policy”
these funds are not new. the city has used for its schools the funds granted each year by the State to the common . Thus, in 2014, 1.4 million euros were assigned to renewal work on the Marseilles school groups. “But in 2015, only 300 000 had been spent, says one in the entourage of the Minister. There are already 3 million over the 5 arrows that are on rehabilitation and construction work. “ Soon, the state should release additional funds through the Support Fund for the local investment.
beyond these respective envelopes, “what is really unique is that we do not simply pass the buck” said Minister, welcoming the work done in collaboration with the city, which has “out of this situation from above.” And for this collaboration to be sustainable, a committee monitoring together the services of the State, city, teachers and parents should be established to follow the progress of projects. A next stage point is already fixed in June
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