The start of the 2021 school year is coming ” difficult “ for Catholic education, announcement In correspondence, his internal letter: “On the basis of the 2021 finance law, 239 positions are withdrawn from private education, to which is added the transformation of 370 full-time equivalent positions into overtime. Added to these restrictions is the decision of Catholic education to finance the contracts of its 1,280 future work-study trainee teachers through an additional withdrawal of 380 jobs ” and by the use of sixty posts to finance the discharges of school directors.
Philippe Delorme, Secretary General of Catholic Education. © ARCHIVES WEST FRANCE
A loss of 8,723 students
The job cuts included in the 2021 finance law were expected. Catholic education continues to lose primary school students: 5,000 in 2018, 9,000 in 2019, 15,000 in 2020. For the first time in ten years, this drop was not compensated for at the start of the 2020 school year. by the increase in enrollment in secondary education. In total, Catholic education posted a loss of 8,723 students in September, a decrease of 0.42% of its numbers.
The situation promises to be tense. “But in terms of teaching resources, that is to say of teachers in front of students, we will be at the same level, through the game of overtime, affirms to West France the Secretary General of Catholic Education, Philippe Delorme. The start of the school year will however be difficult because we will not be able to endow the deficit academies as we would have liked because they are dynamically demographic: Versailles, Bordeaux, Nantes and Lyon. “
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