(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 30 - In the Budget Law, approved by the Senate definitively, there are numerous provisions for schools with over 3.7 billion allocated for this sector, of which 2.2 for current expenditure and over 1.5 for investments.
Following the form with the planned interventions.
These are the main interventions.
Support - The Budget Law provides for a multi-year plan for the hiring of 25,000 support teachers, which will be accompanied by special funds for educating teachers on inclusion issues and for the purchase of additional teaching aids.
An innovative bankruptcy procedure is then launched for the recruitment of teachers specialized in support.
It will be a decree of the Ministry of Education to discipline it.
The competition will be held every two years.
And, again every two years, the rankings can be integrated and the score of the candidates present in the ranking will be updated on the basis of the new titles obtained in the meantime.
Funding for private schools that welcome pupils with disabilities was also increased by 70 million by 2021.
Digitization - The text foresees 40 million for digitization, together with further resources to enhance administrative and didactic action in schools, also with the use of digital animators and new technologies.
The territorial training teams of teachers, who deal with the implementation of the National Digital School Plan, are confirmed and strengthened to accelerate innovation processes in schools, promote staff training and enhance the skills of female students and students on innovative teaching methods and integrated digital teaching.
20 million euros were then allocated to grant less well-off students, on free loan for use, a mobile device with connectivity or a bonus of the same value.
School building - The budget provides for over 1.5 billion for school building.
The allocation of 1 million euros more for each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023 has been envisaged for urgent school building interventions, with particular regard to the areas of greatest seismic risk, and the one-year extension of the commissioner powers to the Mayors of Municipalities and Metropolitan Cities and Provincial Presidents for a rapid implementation of interventions.
As part of INAIL's 2021-2023 real estate investment plan, 40 million are also allocated to the construction of innovative schools in municipalities with a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants in the regions of Abruzzo, Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia .
The aim is also to counter the depopulation of the small municipalities of the Midday.
State exams - 30 million euros are foreseen to be allocated to state and equal schools to ensure the correct execution of the State exams for the school year 2020/2021 according to the health safety standards provided.
There is also the possibility for the Minister of Education to adopt ordinances with specific measures for the evaluation of learning and the carrying out of the related State Exams.
Sizing of educational institutions - The rules of school sizing introduced years ago in the period of cuts change: for 2020/2021 the minimum number of 600 students, 400 in small islands and mountain municipalities, which schools must reach in order to have their own school manager and Director of General Administrative Services, he is lowered to 500 and 300 students respectively.
A measure to give a greater number of schools their own head of school and a full-time DSGA, fundamental in the management of the current emergency period.
Musical high schools - A 3 million fund is set up at the Ministry of Education for the expansion of the educational offer in musical high schools, with the activation of courses on jazz and on new musical languages.
Kindergarten and 0-6 years old school - The provision provides 1,000 more teachers for the enhancement of the educational offer in the kindergarten and an additional allocation of 60 million for the 0-6 age group.
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