Anne Hidalgo asks Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to reconsider the cuts to teaching positions in Paris

In a letter, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo asks the new Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra to return to “the elimination of 125 teaching positions in Paris in primary education, and 128 positions in secondary education” for the start of the school year in September 2024. Job cuts decided by his predecessor, Gabriel Attal, now Prime Minister. The mayor of Paris specifies that “These job cuts are in addition to those which led in 2023 to the closure of more than 170 classes in Parisian schools, as well as the equivalent of 3 colleges”.

Against a backdrop of controversy, while the new minister has chosen to educate her children in the private Stanislas establishment, because “lots of hours were not seriously replaced” at the Littré public school, the mayor of Paris considers that this decision is “a personal matter”but “as Minister of National Education” Amélie Oudéa-Castéra’s statement is “a form of distrust and contempt for public schools, which deserve to be supported and not denigrated.”

She points to the responsibility of “previous governments” of which Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was a part: “You deplore the effects whose causes you cherish”tackle Anne Hidalgo. “These teacher job cuts perpetuate the problems that you need to address.”