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After a series of revelations at Dagbladet about the use of money in the Oslo school, the city councilor Inga Marte Thorkildsen (SV) is now called to the carpet.
On Monday morning, an email was sent from Eivor Evenrud (Red) requesting a hearing. Evenrud requests that three hours be set aside for the hearing. Previously, she has been very critical of the use of consulting that Dagbladet has documented in particular.
Evenrud headed the committee and has called the hearing after Dagbladet was able to submit text messages earlier today that showed Thorkildsen feared a teachers’ strike as a result of the salary increase at his own agency.
«In order for the city council members to get all their questions answered, there is now a need for a longer form of questioning: a hearing», Evenrud writes in the notice.
– An example of horror
In the SMS exchange with education director Marte Gerhardsen, to which Dagbladet had access, it emerged that both Thorkildsen and Gerhardsen feared a strike as a result of the cases involving the salaried party.
However, the wage increases were not reversed.
«I am very concerned that this debate on executive pay will end in a teachers’ strike. It will be a disaster. I appreciate the help, we have to be clear now“Thorkildsen wrote to Gerhardsen in an SMS on October 22.
Evenrud confirms that texting was instrumental in her convening a hearing.
– When politicians worry too much about “controlling the message”, it becomes a disaster. This is an example of horror. Now we’re left with more questions than answers, and we’re calling an audience to get the right answers, Evenrud tells Dagbladet.
– She tried to trick us
FRP supports queries
While teachers at the Oslo school have been asked to show restraint in crisis year 2020, many of the principals at the Oslo school have received large salary increases. Teachers have been offered a 1.7 percent pay raise; some directors received more than 10 percent, and that was outside the ordinary salary settlement.
Frp also wants to hear from Thorkildsen.
– We are not a gram reassured or softer in the mind of the answers of the councilor of the school Inga Marte Thorkildsen, on the contrary – the discomfort increases day by day. We believe that the city council almost neglected the Oslo school, and we are concerned about the upcoming cuts of one billion, the use of funds in the sector, the increase of millions in the salary of the principals and the disclaimer to the school board in its answer to the city council, says Aina Stenersen (Frp) to Dagbladet.
LO union: – Reprehensible
– Reprehensible
In addition to a director-level pay party, Dagbladet has also documented millions spent on consultants, headhunters, and American leadership training. The opposition in Oslo, as well as several in the Storting, have reacted strongly to the use of money in the Oslo school run by SV and Thorkildsen.
Aina Skjefstad Andersen heads the Education Association in Oslo and has spoken very critically about the salaried party. Union leader Anne Finborud of the National Association of Schools has been even sharper:
– It is reprehensible. I really have to say that I was very disappointed to read about executive salaries. It destroys respect for the schemes we have, increases differences in society, and weakens the foundation of the welfare state, he had previously told Dagbladet.
