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Minister Lucia Azzolina appears to be well advanced in her “battle” to adequately finance the return to school of more than eight million students and one million employees: the draft revival law decree (Consisting of about 260 items) provides for the allocation of one billion over two years for education, specifically to allocate resources to containment measures of the epidemic in state schools.
Immediately 400 million, another 600 in 2021
Specifically, the draft allocates $ 400 million for 2020 and another $ 600 for 2021. In addition, additional support is anticipated for the 0-6 year system, through a total contribution of $ 65 million for those who administer educational services on an ongoing basis (such as nurseries) and in non-state children’s educational institutions, as financial support for the reduction or non-payment of fees.
The game, however, is far from over: the draft of the Revival Decree in fact, it is still modifiable and additional modifications are not excluded, even if particular increases are not expected if we consider that in the last days there has already been a substantial increase compared to the initial version.
More than 120 thousand euros in school in two years.
If the amount of the appropriation is confirmed and the funds go directly to the schools, it would be a loan to an institution on average above 50 thousand euros for 2020 and another 70 thousand euros for the following year.
The credit would also be providential to guarantee the presence exams. Also because among secondary school workers there is some concern about returning to school in less than a month: a group of teachers from a secondary school in Latin America, for example, asks us “how come no one expresses a related hypothesis with a protocol of sanitation and health protection for all school and school workers. There is talk of doing face-to-face exams without giving guarantees of health security. In factories, union organizations demanded a protocol before talking about reopening. we define duties and procedures without talking about health protection. “
The modalities under study
In fact, these days security measures are being studied to avoid contagion: the minister presented a first draft on the return to unions and the latter immediately requested “to establish a national frame of reference according to which each school, due to its specificities (type of students, organization of work, construction of structures), it will have to define precise indications on the devices and the rules of conduct aimed at safe assistance in school settings, eliminating any risk of spreading the infection. “
An answer also to parents.
The funding that the policy is preparing to launch would also serve to respond to the many families who are asking for back-to-school guarantees that they attend: specifically, even with requests, parents request staggered entries and exits, a thermocanner with trained staff for temperature measurement, elimination of collective breaks such as recreation, lunch and school assemblies to organize them in stages.
Senator Verducci’s Appeal (Pd)
Similar requests also come from different politicians. Like senator Pd Francesco Verducci, vice president of the Senate Committee on Culture and Education, for whom “an extraordinary investment plan is needed for the public school. It is the most urgent thing, “said the Democrat.
“A country, he said, cannot live with closed schools. It affects our future. And to return to school safely, without risk to the health of children, families, and workers, important and strategic resources are needed immediately “
Verducci eagerly awaits the launch of “a component for the school” because “structural investments are needed for more staff and more teachers, to stabilize precarious workers, in construction to have more spaces, classrooms, laboratories. We need to reinvent the teaching ”.
