Map of schools classified in the priority educational network (REP and REP +) on one side, social position indices (IPS) of institutions on the other: logically, the two should overlap. This would mean that aids designed for the most disadvantaged children reach them.
But, looking closely at the college IPS map, as The world is working on this since the publication in mid-October of these national education management tools, several inconsistencies are emerging. Thus, in the category of GPI above the national average for public schools (100), 20 establishments are in the REP – in the north-east of Paris, in Bordeaux and Ajaccio, in particular. In the below average GPI category, 112 colleges are not rated REP. Finally, there is a very disadvantaged institution, the Gérard-Philipe college of Clermont-Ferrand, which could well deserve the REP+ label, but did not obtain it during the last revision of the card, in 2014 – the date on which, However, IPS did not exist. This index was designed in 2016 by the national education system to associate the socio-professional categories of parents with the chances of school success, observing the cultural practices of families and their economic capital (size of housing, Internet connection, etc.). The IPS of an institution corresponds to the average IPS of all pupils.
“We will revise the priority education map in 2023”, announced the Minister of Education, Pap Ndiaye, on Friday 9 December on Franceinfo, acknowledging that the REPs, determined in 2014 from 2011 data, do not take into account the “ten years of neighborhood development”. “It is clear that many institutions should enter priority education and others leave”he added, before specifying that the new card would not be ready for the start of the 2023 school year.
Originally, it was due for an overhaul in 2019 – its planners had predicted, since 2014, that some neighborhoods would evolve. But the then minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, received a report in 2019 from academic Pierre Mathiot and inspector general Ariane Azéma proposing avenues for priority education reform, effectively rejecting the opening of the file. A few months later, the Covid-19 pandemic definitively moved the cursor to more urgent issues.
Bias in favor of cities
Meanwhile, the discrepancy between the REP map and the IPS of the institutions is not without consequences: the classification of a boarding school in priority training triggers that of all the schools that provide it (we speak of “network” REP and REP + ), and gives access to resources, including subdivision of CP, CE1 classes and large kindergartens. But also an hourly allocation more favorable to the college, fewer students per class and a bonus for staff, up to several hundred euros per month in REP+.
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