Busy comeback in perspective. The great consultation around the school will take place “from September” and will last “until the end of 2022”announced the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, Tuesday, June 14, during a press briefing after the Council of Ministers, at the Elysée Palace.
Promised by Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign, this consultation will take the form “debate, decentralized exchanges, in all schools, so that teachers, parents of students, administrative and management staff and other actors in local life can reflect about their schooldetailed the minister, pointing to a reform that will be “in the time”.
Otherwise, “the continuation of the revaluation of teachers, initiated in the second part of the previous five-year term, and the revaluation to come within the framework of the pact with teachers, will be the subject of consultation”added Pap Ndiaye.
The successor of Jean-Michel Blanquer also addressed the subject of the start of the school year in September, which will concern 12.2 million students. “The priority given to primary school will be confirmed and will again result, for the fifth consecutive school year, in an improvement in the pupil supervision rate. In concrete terms: the average number of pupils per class, which has increased from 23 at the start of the 2017 school year to 21.8 at the start of the 2021 school year, will decrease further at the start of the next school year”he promised.
The minister acknowledged “a delicate context of recruiting teachers, due to a decline in the attractiveness of certain teacher competitions”. “You have to think about structural responses, it goes through better pay, better working conditions, and a close look at career development”, he estimated. In the immediate future, “to respond to emergencies, we call on contract teachers, whose share remains very modest with 1% in the first degree and 8% in the second degree”.
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Finally, he mentioned “collective commitment to a fully inclusive school with the creation of 4,000 additional full-time equivalents of carers for children with disabilities”.