In November 2020 and 2021, the Pays de la Loire regional council voted grants of €50,000 for two primary schools outside the Espérance suburbs network. at Le Mans and to Angers. The regional opposition group L’Écologie ensemble doubted the legality of this deliberation and had arrested the regional prefect last November
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In a press release, the Ecology Together group announced that it had received a response from the prefect. “While the Region can allocate social aid for students for extra-curricular activities, it cannot allocate subsidies for private school activities, outside the contract”, says the senior official in his letter. However, the deliberations of the regional council are similar to a “operating grant” direct.
“Regularize the situation as soon as possible”
“The lump-sum grants paid by the majority of Christelle Morançais […] are therefore irregular. thinks Lucie Etonno, the president of the group Ecology together. She invites the President of the Region to “regularize the situation as quickly as possible and place its action within a legal framework, by strengthening the means of public schools and initiatives against dropping out of school in the field of regional competences. » The regional majority planned new support of €50,000 in November 2022 for the Espérance suburbs schools.
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