Question 14263 — nursery and primary education

Summary

Mr. Auguste Evrard alerts the Minister of National Education about the class closures planned in Pas-de-Calais for the start of the 2026 school year. After 59 job cuts and 136 class closures for the start of the 2025 school year, the department is facing a new bleeding: 127 class closures for only 28 definitive openings and 10 provisional openings, for a net balance of 89 classes deleted, in a territory where the indicators educational and social are already among the most degraded in the country. In the eighth district alone, the draft school map would list 13 closures to date for 2 definitive openings and 1 provisional. These cuts affect both schools classified as reinforced priority education networks in Auchel and Longuenesse and schools in rural communities in Audomarois such as Helfaut, Mametz, Roquetoire or Aire-sur-la-Lys, where the school often constitutes the last local public service. Parents of students and union organizations, who have increased alerts and mobilizations for several weeks, are raising legitimate and converging concerns: overcrowded classes in prospect, inclusion of students with disabilities made more difficult due to lack of sufficient staff, imposed groupings which lengthen the travel and disorganize the lives of families and a purely accounting logic which treats the demographic decline as an opportunity for savings rather than as a chance to finally improve teaching conditions. The department educates proportionally more students with disabilities than the national average and yet this is where the State chooses to eliminate classes, making each closure all the more serious consequences for the most vulnerable students. The worrying demographic decline could nevertheless have been used to reduce class sizes, among the highest in Europe, and to strengthen the supervision of students with special needs. The Government made the opposite choice, to the detriment of the territories which most need the schools of the Republic. He asks him what concrete measures he intends to take to stop these cuts, guarantee the sustainability of rural schools and priority education establishments in the district, ensure a staffing rate commensurate with the specific needs of Pas-de-Calais and to specify according to which criteria the demographic decline is used to justify closures rather than to improve schooling conditions.

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