It is a report, made public this Tuesday in the National Assembly, which will make waves. With the risk of reawakening the school war. It is signed by two parliamentarians sitting in opposing camps. The first elected, Christopher Weissberg, is a Renaissance deputy for French people abroad. The second is his LFI colleague from Val-d'Oise Paul Vannier. A former history-geography teacher, he wrote part of the program on the education of candidate Mélenchon in 2022. Together, they demand stricter supervision of private schools, a sector which totals 2 million students spread across 7 500 establishments. Teaching there is almost entirely Catholic (98% of students).
“We must put control and steering back into the private system,” thunders the Macronist. Otherwise, there is a risk of unfair competition between the private and public sectors. » He regrets that the State largely finances these establishments without monitoring what is happening there. Audits would be very rare there. Paul Vannier goes further. “What is the total amount spent on private establishments under contract? Ten, eleven, maybe twelve billion euros… Nobody knows anything. It's out of control, almost. It is very opaque. »
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