A significant change is coming to Parisian schools, in terms of organization. Following a recommendation from the Court of Auditors, the Ministry of Education says it is working to end a special regime from which school directors benefit.
TO “irregular device” who does it “They represent a significant budgetary burden for the ministry” and constitutes “a rupture of equality compared to other municipalities”. From a scathing sentence formulated in a summary writing addressed to the Ministry of National Education, and published on Monday, November 25, the jurisdiction “pray” Grenelle Street “end this as soon as possible” With one little-known exception outside the borders of the capital: the high teaching system for directors of Parisian public schools.
According to the latter, teachers who assume management functions in Paris are completely relieved of teaching as soon as their nursery or primary school has more than five classes. Below this threshold, they benefit from part-time dismissal. Rules much more favorable than the regime provided for by the education code. In the rest of the national territory, directors are only released full-time beyond twelve classes (8.6% of schools), and part-time between nine and eleven classes. For schools with one to five classes, allotted teaching time varies from six days per year to one-quarter time per week.
Lacks legal basis
This privileged situation is the result of a forty-two year agreement. Until 1981, the council employed “assistant directors”, who worked as teachers to relieve school directors. Since 1982, an agreement between the city of Paris and the Ministry of National Education provides for the State to appoint school teachers to replace dismissed directors and for the city council to offset the cost of their remuneration. The City has defended this system several times in the name of the scope of the missions that managers must assume, “admission of students, material management, monitoring and responsibility in interclasses and studies, collection and verification of family participation in extracurricular activities, management and security of the premises, functional authority over the municipal staff who work at the school, relations with district councils ».
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