Question 15997 — teaching

Summary

Mr. Stéphane Peu alerts the Minister of National Education and Youth to the consequences of the abolition of the National Council for Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of the School System (Cnesco) provided for by article 9 of the “School of Trust” bill examined at first reading. This independent body constitutes a relevant tool for analyzing and evaluating educational policies, bringing together different stakeholders in the the educational community and in connection with the world of research. Its disappearance would deprive national education of scientific data and surveys essential to the evaluation of educational policies and educational practices in different fields: psychology, pedagogy, sociology and educational and territorial inequalities. Its planned disappearance is incomprehensible, given the very modest means it mobilizes and its recognized usefulness. Indeed, as recently highlighted by the transpartisan Juanico-Tamarelle parliamentary report, this body is appreciated by the educational community as well as parents of students, particularly in that it offers a space for the exchange of valuable information and experiences, a participatory point of contact in the service of educational success. The quality of his work is also widely recognized in the scientific community. Finally, thanks to evaluations carried out by independent scientists from the Ministry of National Education, Cnesco informs civil society in complete impartiality of the results of the education system and the real effects of the decided reforms. Eliminating Cnesco leads to a notable reduction in the process of accountability of political personnel in the field of education at a time when more Transparency in public action is demanded by citizens to guarantee quality democracy. He reminds him that in most areas, the evaluation cannot be carried out by the ordering parties, at the risk of it being subject to short-term objectives and only a posteriori confirmation of political orientations. On the contrary, since the management and evaluation functions must be separated, it is essential to to “trust”, to use the title of the bill for schools, in the autonomy and independence of evaluation structures like Cnesco. However, this independence is not guaranteed by the new school evaluation committee that the bill proposes to replace Cnesco, since on the contrary, the law would place it at "the heart of the ministry through the opinion that the minister will render on its work program and through the presence of the heads of the main internal evaluation producing services”. This is why he urges him to give a negative opinion on the proposed absorption and disappearance of Cnesco.

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