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Presented in October, this school building renovation program provides for the upgrading of all of the city’s 470 establishments, with major rehabilitation of 174 schools in very poor condition.
A yellow crane casts shade in the playground, framed by palisades separating it from the works that occupy the neighboring space. The long bar of the main building, in the “Jules Ferry school” style, is partly disused. It has already been cleaned up and is awaiting renovation, while an extension is under construction just opposite. A new refectory, flanked on its roof by an educational garden, the creation of a gymnasium, open to neighborhood associations, a vegetated and waterproofed courtyard… Total of the operation: 15 million euros, delivery scheduled for the start of the school year 2023. The 300 students of the Saint-Louis Gare school group, in the 15th arrondissement in the north of Marseille, were not present this Wednesday to attend the visit of the mayor, Benoît Payan, who had symbolically chosen this site to act by stone the official launch of the schools plan.
Presented in October, this school building renovation program provides for an upgrade of all of the city’s 470 establishments, with heavy rehabilitation of some 174 particularly degraded schools. Vast project, estimated at 1.2 billion euros, for which the new left-wing municipal majority has won substantial state aid – 254 million euros have …