Question 16005 — nursery and primary education

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Mrs. Raquel Garrido alerts the Minister of National Education and Youth to the critical state in which public schools find themselves, particularly in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, due to lack of resources allocated to carry out the missions entrusted to them. For too long, school has no longer been a priority for governments. Many of the successive reforms have the same objective in common: to make savings on the education of children. The rare revisions which do not concern the budgetary and financial aspect fuel the project of a two-tier school which sorts students and continues to increase educational inequalities. This is evidenced by Gabriel Attal’s recent announcements on the “clash of knowledge”. These announcements, largely rejected by national education personnel, do not in any way correspond to the demands of these professionals who demand the material resources necessary to carry out their jobs (recruitment, equipment, maintenance of premises) and an increase in their salaries. Today, private contract education is 73% financed by public funds. In the finance law for 2024, private education obtained an increase of 6.70% for a total of 9 billion euros in payment credits when the increase for education public school was much less with an increase of 4.58% for the 1st level and 5.40% for the 2nd level. Worse, the recent announcement of 10 billion euros in savings on state spending by Bruno Le Maire will worsen the already catastrophic situation in which public schools find themselves. The “School Education” mission is one of the most impacted by this cut with nearly 692 million euros in savings, including around 70% concerns personnel expenses. In concrete terms, in 2024 there will be fewer adults in schools to supervise students (teachers, CPE, AED, school doctors and nurses, psychologists, etc.). This decision is extremely serious even though staff are demanding a massive recruitment plan for public schools. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the situation is such that the education inter-union has presented a major emergency plan for the department with the main motto of reducing inequalities. This work carried out by the unions reveals that in Seine-Saint-Denis, there is a shortage of 2,200 positions supporting students with disabilities (AESH), 175 principal education advisors (CPE), 650 education assistants, 320 teaching assistants and that the emergency creation of 5,000 teaching positions for the start of the 2024 school year is primordial. Mobilized since February 26, 2024, the start of the school year, the next day, more than 700 staff and parents were present in front of the management of departmental national education services (DSDEN 93) in Bobigny. Since then, the mobilization has intensified: strike pickets, public meetings, “dead college” operations, town general assemblies. Thursday March 7, 2024, the day of mobilization at the call of the inter-union movement was very strongly followed: 60% of strikers in the department, more than 4,500 people demonstrating in Paris, 450 people in the departmental general assembly. The staff and parents are determined and plan to continue the mobilization until their demands are met. What is the Minister waiting for to receive them? The MP also carried out an audit for 1st and 2nd degree public establishments in its district with the help of unions and parents. At the Jacques Decour elementary school (REP +) in Bobigny, between September and November 2023, short teacher absences have not been replaced. The RASED is incomplete: there is no specialized teacher with a pedagogical focus (teacher E), nor a specialized teacher with a behavioral focus (teacher G) who intervene about school. She asks her what she plans to do to respond to the urgency of the situation in Seine-Saint-Denis and more specifically for the Jacques Decour elementary school in Bobigny.

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1. 12 March 2024

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