Paris town hall announces the “temporary suspension” of municipal funding of the private establishment

The municipality had paid 1.37 million euros to this Catholic establishment for the 2022-2023 school year.

She cuts off food. The Paris town hall announced on Wednesday January 17 that it would “temporarily suspend funding for the Stanislas private establishment”accused of “drifts” in a report from the General Inspectorate of National Education revealed by Mediapart.

This private Catholic school group received, for the year 2022-2023, municipal funding of 1.37 million euros corresponding to its approximately 1,800 students from kindergarten to middle school, “in accordance with the law governing the financing of private establishments under contract”specifies the town hall.

“This compulsory financing will be suspended as a precautionary measure, pending the clarifications required from the State”, affirms the City of Paris. She asks for transmission “as soon as possible” of the report, dated July 2023, which was not the subject “no official transmission to the communities which finance this establishment”. She also claims to be the recipient of “action plan” which was imposed by the government, as affirmed on Wednesday morning by the new Minister of National Education, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, who sent her children to school there.

A “shocking” report, according to the town hall

On the Franceinfo set, the first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, denounced, Wednesday evening, “a desire to conceal”. “How come this report was hidden for so long?”he asked, referring to a document “extremely shocking”.

The 30-page report mentions in particular “deviations in the application of the association contract” with the State: courses teaching the Catholic religion are compulsory, which is not “not comply” with the law, specifies in particular the document published in full by Mediapart.