A three-step tour for owners. On Wednesday, September 4, the Mayor of Marseille, Benoît Payan (several on the left), appeared at the VRP to present some of the city’s six new primary schools which, two days earlier, welcomed their first school year. Two complete renovations and a construction from scratch involving a total of more than a thousand students, chosen from districts in the centre and north of the city to symbolise the full progress of the “schools” plan, launched in October 2021 by the Marseille City Council. Spring, the left-wing coalition in power. A programme targeting 188 establishments out of 470 in the municipality, subject to unprecedented financial aid of 400 million euros from the State, as part of the grand Marseille plan.
At the bee school (1)Ahem district), located in the hypercentre, at the foot of the cities of the northern districts of Malpassé-Les Oliviers (13my) or in the very impoverished and poorly equipped district of Belle-de-Mai (3my), revealed the mayor of Marseille, accompanied by the prefect of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Christophe Mirmand “with pride” Buildings with successful architectures.
The first has a gymnasium and a playground on the ground floor, but the project had been launched during the previous term in response to the constraints of the narrow urban plot. The second has a large courtyard with permeable ground, lined with arches and trees. Finally, there are bright spaces and a circular courtyard with a view of the rooftops of Marseille for the Marceau school. Built on a former vacant lot, this new school group of 21 classes is changing the lives of students who were previously housed in classrooms installed for twelve years in prefabricated buildings.
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“Public authorities must offer beauty to students, regardless of the neighborhood where they live”Benoît Payan stressed, who, throughout the trip, did not hesitate to talk about the“state of deterioration of schools” after the twenty-five years of rule of Jean-Claude Gaudin (Les Républicains). “It was embarrassing”remember. “We are going to open 17 schools this year. Thus, 30 projects have been launched that will be fully advanced by 2025. And with the studies, a total of 70 schools will be up and running by the end of the mandate. We are achieving what some thought impossible.”welcomed the mayor.
These figures, however, are less ambitious than those he himself announced at the launch of the plan in October 2021, when he mentioned a target of 80 schools “treated” during the mandate.
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