12 municipalities of Seine-Saint-Denis attack the State due to the lack of teachers in the department

Twelve municipalities in Seine-Saint-Denis are attacking the State due to the lack of teachers in the department, franceinfo learned from the Romainville town hall. The elected officials of Montreuil, Bobigny, La Courneuve and Romainville will publish decrees on Tuesday April 2 to put the State on notice to launch as soon as possible an emergency plan for education in Seine-Saint- Denis, a department where students lose 15% of their lesson hours, or a year of their schooling, due to a lack of teachers. These 12 socialist, environmentalist or communist mayors therefore want to confront the State with its responsibilities with a financial penalty which can go up to 500 euros per day.

A deficit of several thousand positions

These Sequano-Dionysian city councilors ensure “don’t ask for alms, just equality”. In Seine-Saint-Denis, there is a shortage of more than 5,000 positions, according to the inter-union of teachers in the department, in primary, middle, high schools and at the AESH level, supporting students with disabilities.

In their decrees, the mayors rely on the declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child and insist on “access to education as an essential condition for the dignity of the human person”. The mayors expect the department prefect to take administrative action to try to overturn the formal notice, and the financial penalty that goes with it. But for the mayor of Romainville François Dechy, the main thing is to “make the State aware that in Seine-Saint-Denis the account is not there”.