Question 180 — nursery and primary education

Summary

Ms. Clémentine Autain alerts the Minister of National Education about the implementation of the “100% CP success rate” reform in the priority education networks (REP+) from the start of the 2017-2018 school year. Although reducing class sizes can be a very beneficial lever for academic success, it cannot be done through redeployment. Carried out without additional recruitment, this measure will result in more students in the other classes, fewer replacement teachers and will lead to the end of the “More teachers than classes” system, however popular with education stakeholders. In Seine-Saint-Denis, the implementation of the “12 students per class” system will cause significant collateral damage. The department has 200 REP + CP classes in 112 schools. To achieve the objective stated by the Government, the academic director (DASEN) will have to recruit no less than 200 additional teachers. A measure impossible to implement with a falling budget and without dedicated additional human and material resources, in schools which are already well above the thresholds and in a department particularly affected by the non-replacement of teachers (the FCPE puts forward the figure of 400 classes without teachers every day in Seine-Saint-Denis). In a department in the midst of a demographic boom, which welcomes an average of 2,000 more students each year, most schools do not have the premises necessary to set up the system from the start of the 2017 school year. The 13 municipalities concerned in the department, including the town of Sevran, will have to find more than a hundred additional classrooms by September. By concentrating resources on REP+ CPs, the new Class openings will thus be to the detriment of other levels, which are already overloaded. In a context of budgetary austerity, the implementation of this forced reform will de facto lead to additional expenses for local authorities, already suffocated by the drop in public spending and the elimination of the global operating grant (DGF). Recent announcements from the Government, particularly during of the Territorial Conference of July 17, 2017, a further reduction in local authority spending of 13 billion euros and a cut of 75 million euros from the national education budget, further reinforce the concerns of public education stakeholders in a popular department already strongly affected by territorial inequalities. The implementation of an ambitious education reform national cannot be done without a real investment with an increasing budget to recruit sufficient and better paid teachers. She therefore wishes to know his opinion on this subject.

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