Nicole Belloubet conceded this in an evasive sentence before the Committee on Culture, Education, Communication and Sport, in the Senate, on April 3. To return the 683 million euros requested from national education as part of the 10 billion euro credit cancellation plan for 2024, “ [il faut] to make choices “, had recognized the Minister of National Education, without the arbitrations in question ever being the subject of political communication. The instructions reflecting the cost-saving measures that the rectorates began to send to all educational establishments on Monday, April 29, therefore took management staff by surprise, among whom astonishment competes with growing anger.
In the academies of Paris, Créteil, Versailles and even Lyon, the authorities informed management staff by email that, “in application of the decree (…) of February 21 canceling credits, a measure to reduce overtime allocations and allowances for special missions was notified. at the academy. Consequently, the allocations awarded for the year 2023-2024 “will be subject to adjustment”, it is explained. The Ministry of National Education confirms World that all academies are concerned.
In establishments, we say to ourselves “stunned”, ” disaster “, “revolted” by this withdrawal of resources which concerns all establishments, including those in priority education, and endangers numerous systems in middle and high schools, which still have two months to go before the end of classes.
The overtime in question is in the hands of the establishments and pays teachers who provide refresher courses during the holidays, support or exam preparation activities, short-term replacements or even homework help (the system called “Homework Done”) at college. More than 7.5 million of these hours were worked in 2023, at a cost of 333 million euros. THE “compensation for special mission” They are used to pay for missions carried out outside of student teaching time, such as the coordination of sporting or artistic activities or the function of digital or disability referent. They represented more than 161 million euros in 2023.
Withdrawals of unprecedented resources
The overtime management application was blocked for school managers as of Monday evening. As with the teaching pact, for which the ministry took back the unused envelopes at the beginning of April, all the credits not consumed at this stage of the year were taken over by the rectorates to study their reduction. A portion may be returned on a case-by-case basis, depending on needs. The principle of remuneration for services performed is not “not called into question”provide the academies while many teachers who have already carried out missions, sometimes for several months, have not yet received the related remuneration.
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