The ministry has given up spending 75 million euros which were part of the budget allocated to National Education for 2021. A shame, while the needs are not lacking.
Would the Ministry of National Education have saved money thanks to the health crisis? One thing is certain, Jean-Michel Blanquer has given up spending 75 million euros, which were nevertheless part of the budget that had been allocated to him for the year 2021. If not having been consumed, this sum calculated on a total of 55 billion euros – excluding credits from the recovery plan – will therefore not be paid, as required the amending finance bill (PLFR) presented to the Council of Ministers on November 3. In the public, this corresponds to a loss of more than 15 million euros for the second degree and 2.3 million euros for the first degree. Reason given: “Lower expenses linked to the health crisis (teaching credits and training). “ But why not have drawn on these reserves to strengthen the brigades of substitute teachers in deficit areas, at a time when teaching teams and parents were tearing their hair out? Added to this are 40 million savings made on the “student life” program – which includes school medicine, more useful than ever in these times of pandemic – and actions in favor of the inclusion of students in situation of disability, such as the recruitment and remuneration of AESH, who have been protesting for several months against the precariousness of their working conditions.
Bureaucracy
Last part, the “support of the national education policy” sees 15 million euros flying away which should have been used, it seems, to finance the organization of exams and competitions, as well as travel expenses. At the ministry, it is specified that it is the “precautionary reserve”, supposed to cover in particular the vagaries of management, which is here amputated following an under-consumption linked to the health crisis.
The fact remains that we do not fully understand what prevented Jean-Michel Blanquer from using these credits to equip canteens with ventilation systems or to subsidize the purchase of computer equipment, which nevertheless counts among the actions of this program… Unless A Kafkaesque bureaucracy, combined with the pressure on state money, freezes every budget line, despite common sense.
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