Jean-Michel Blanquer seized the General Inspectorate to shed light on the use of subsidies granted to parents' organizations and high school girls, including Avenir lycéen, we learned on Friday from the Ministry of National Education.
The Minister of National Education seized the General Inspectorate at the request of the General Directorate of School Education (Dgesco), the same source said, confirming information from
Liberation.
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The Dgesco thus intends that this be deepened, with superior resources, the investigation it conducted after the revelations at the beginning of November from Mediapart, according to which Avenir lycéen had received 65,000 euros of subsidies in 2019 squandered in food costs and luxury.
A few weeks later, Liberation affirmed that this high school union, created in 2018, was remotely guided by Jean-Michel Blanquer to serve his reforms.
“A case from scratch,”
he replied, denying any instrumentalisation of the union by him or the ministry.
The first checks carried out by the Dgesco on the use of public subsidies from all the high school organizations receiving public subsidies, six in number, revealed shortcomings in their management and in particular difficulties in producing the required accounting documents. , specified the ministry.
The General Inspectorate's investigation will focus on the use of subsidies for ten years by high school organizations but also parents' associations.
According to the ministry, the investigations were extended to the latter because they also fall within the field of school democracy.
The two main ones, including the FCPE and the Peep.
After the revelations of the press, the deputies of rebellious France had called for the opening of a parliamentary inquiry and announced to take legal action to shed light on the links between Jean-Michel Blanquer and Avenir lycéen.