Elisabeth Borne promised on Friday to change the method on the thorny issue of class closures in rural areas, with more anticipation, during a trip focused on education, one of the government’s priorities to get out of the crisis of the retreats.
On the occasion of this trip to the Nivre, the Prime Minister addressed a sensitive point in rural areas, the question of class closures, for which she would like a change of method.
Today, they are announced a few months in advance. We want to be able to anticipate, share transparently with elected officials and have an approach over several years, in order to find appropriate answers, she specified.
More specifically, instead of each year, in February and then in June, giving the list of classes that open and close, sometimes with mayors who are a little unprepared, (…) we go, with the local authorities , think things over three years, said Friday evening the Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye on Franceinfo.
Three years to be able to change on the school map, with the mayors, with the prefects, to clearly see how we build the school map and avoid the psychodramas that we know, explained the minister.
The visit of the Prime Minister was the first in the region for nearly two months, intended to highlight education, on which the executive wants to provide concrete answers, as on health and ecology, within the framework of the roadmap entrusted to it by the president.
boarding schools Accompanied by Mr. Ndiaye and the Minister Delegate for Rurality Dominique Faure, Ms. Borne discussed with the pupils and teaching teams of the Albert-Camus primary school and the Jean-Rostand La Machine college on the issues of schooling and equality of opportunity in rural areas.
She attended an English course in co-teaching between college and school teachers at the Jean-Rostand college, before participating in Nevers on the municipal council for children (8-13 years old) and the municipal council for juniors (14-17 years old). , who shared with him their proposals for improving the public service of education.
About 150 people demonstrated near the Ducal Palace Nevers, where Elisabeth Borne was to go. They want to occupy the field on other themes and say that the government has moved on, regretted to AFP a demonstrator, Carole Douspis, of the CGT de la Nivre.
Lisabeth Borne again assured the press that the government is committed to ensuring that from the start of the school year, there can be systematic replacements, including for short-term absences.
She also mentioned the generalization of rural educational territories (TER), doubling them from next year. Objective: 300 within three years, according to those around him.
Created on an experimental basis in the spring of 2021, rural educational territories bring together all the actors (state, local authorities and associations) around the child to contribute to his career and his success.
According to data from the Ministry of National Education, there are currently 65 TERs, in 10 academies and 40 departments, with 92 colleges and 665 schools.
Finally, she said that she would like the development of boarding schools in the most isolated high schools, so that young people are not constrained in choosing their high school by geographical distance and therefore can access the courses they want.