The controversy does not abate for the Stanislas school, a private establishment in the 6th arrondissement.
The Paris town hall is asking the government to “deconvention”, unless the Catholic establishment “comes into compliance with the recommendations” of the official report reporting “abnormalities”, particularly homophobic and sexist.
A wish was adopted to this effect this Friday, in the Paris Council.
In this symbolic text initiated by the communists and amended by the executive, the town hall also asks that Stanislas “respect the freedom of conscience” of the students.
The Council of Paris still asks the rectorate "an exhaustive survey of private educational establishments under contract, in order to verify the conformity of their practices with the Education Code and respect for republican values".
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After the publication by Mediapart of a National Education report revealing "abnormalities in the application of the association contract" with the State within Stanislas, such as the obligation to follow catechism classes, the City of Paris, both municipality and department, had announced that it was temporarily suspending its funding.
For the 2022-2023 school year, this amounted to a total of 1.3 million euros combining the nursery (115 students), elementary (368) and middle school (1,329) sections of this very opulent 6th arrondissement.
A “purely illegal” decision because “these subsidies are quite simply obligatory”, denounced the right-wing opposition representative, Inès de Raguenel.
“This relentlessness cannot hide a form of hatred towards a model based on excellence,” she added.
“It is not written anywhere that local authorities must be blind financiers,” replied the deputy (PS) for education, Patrick Bloche, asking for “respect for the law by Stanislas, neither more nor less ".
Communist elected official Jean-Noël Aqua denounced a “damning report”.
The position of the town hall, led by the left, differs from that of the Ile-de-France region led by the right, whose president Valérie Pécresse has maintained its compulsory funding for the Stanislas high school despite the “shortcomings” mentioned in the report.