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The new Minister for Education Mariastella Gelmini has promised more money for teachers, but if the resources are not the only way to put this promise is to leave unchanged the numerator and the denominator decrease.
In other words just reduce the number of teachers and the few remaining, perhaps, have a more substantial salary.
So we hope not to be among those to be cut off.

Gelmini: "More money for teachers
Responsible and more attention to private "

Just political clashes in school. No tolerance for bullies, reforms only if necessary
The 3 "I" becomes 4 with Italian. And in the speech also cites Gramsci

by: Republic, 10 June 2008

150 thousand fewer seats in 3 years
"A blow to public school"

The government wants to recover eight billion by shock
"They want to return to single teacher in primary"

by: Republic, 24 June 2008

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Gelmini: "More money for teachers
Responsible and more attention to private "

Just political clashes in school. No tolerance for bullies, reforms only if necessary
The 3 "I" becomes 4 with Italian. And in the speech also cites Gramsci

ROME - "The legislature must see a united effort to ensure that the salaries of teachers are adequate to the OECD average." E 'as said by the Minister of Education, University and Research, Mariastella Gelmini, explaining Culture Committee in the House his program for the school.
Salaries below the OECD average. " The minister announced the "numbers" of this emergency wage: "We can not ignore that the average salary of a professor of secondary school after 15 years of teaching amounted to 27,500 euros gross per year, including the thirteenth. Was in Germany earn 20 thousand more, in Finland 16 thousand more. The average OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) is more than 40 thousand per year. "
Meritocracy for schools, students and professors. The new minister then listed the three pillars of its program: responsible, self-assessment. Autonomy means "enhancing governance institutions, provide it with adequate powers and resources", but also expect the schools' capacity management and planning of interventions. " Capacity that must be judged by a system of evaluation "certifying transparency in how and with what results is spent public money." Responsible, however, mean that "schools should reward the best students" but also that there must be "premium systems for teachers and an evaluation of their work." In this case, the Minister Gelmini cites the Democratic Party, which speaks of "a real professional career of teachers that makes the merit and commitment."

"Even the schools are equal public education." A chapter of the program of Gelmini is devoted to the issue of private schools with state equivalent. "Education is always public, even when it is carried out by schools equal," he stressed Gelmini, who had already submitted a bill last February, before becoming minister, on "use of merit in the school system, public administration and the labor market. " "I think - said about the schools equal - that we should reach out to families seeking to exercise their educational choice." The minister has not yet clarified whether the state will pay the teachers of equal ( "E 'reasoning that the committee will evaluate," he said), but stated that "we must also think about resources." He said the data dell'Agesc,
the Association of Catholic parents, that "savings for the treasury in the current year of certain of these initiatives is to free about 5 billion and a half, compared with a contribution of around 500 million euros."
"Zero tolerance for bullying." The minister then intervened on the issue of bullying: "No longer will be tolerated acts which do not respect fellow classmates, teachers, facilities, the common heritage".
"Enough political clashes." Gelmini has also stressed the need to abandon political confrontation in the centers of education. "We need - said the minister - a position taken away from unnecessary ideological visions: the country asks us loudly to leave the political confrontation outside the school." To make this possible, is essential to a "great alliance" in which all give their contribution to the improvement of the largest infrastructure of the country. "
"Reforms if necessary." The minister also said that the legislative reforms of the education system should be done only when absolutely necessary and always and only with the clarity and simplification. "We need real change, not alleged reforms," he explained. "For too many years we have invested our energies on legislative - has continued Gelmini - we imbullonato and unbolt laws and decrees, while more color to the political substance of the problems." This line also includes software that we should not "start from scratch every time," according to the idea that it is useful to "preserve and develop the system as well done by my predecessors." Precisely for this reason, Gelmini did not want to withdraw the circular on debts Fioroni.
The "I" becomes four. Gelmini reaffirms the importance of the three "I" - English, Internet Business - introduced in the legislature earlier by Berlusconi, but added a fourth: Italian. "The" I "in Italian, a term which covers the ancient trinomio, reading, writing, arithmetic account." Gelmini He stressed that in our classes are increasingly large share of students from non-penalized language barrier. Barrier that must be killed, according to the owner of the department of Education.
The words of Gramsci. Mariastella Gelmini while illustrating his program also mentions one of the fathers of Italian Communist Party, Antonio Gramsci: "Gramsci said that the fatigue of the study is the only factor of social promotion. The study is very laborious: it is an adaptation, is a habit acquired with the effort, sometimes with boredom and suffering. "
"The school is not a terminal patient." The new minister is said to still positive towards the future of the Italian school: "We must not resign ourselves, we must not believe that the Italian school is a terminal patient." Even if "you need a shot of pride for everyone."
(10 June 2008)

150 thousand fewer seats in 3 years
"A blow to public school"

The government wants to recover eight billion by shock
"They want to return to single teacher in primary"
SALVO of INTRAVAIA

ROME - "Attack the school, state school at risk dismantling" and "heavy on school choice." These are the comments of union leaders of the school on the so-called tax decree that you know a first draft reliable. To cut down on waste in government and launch the mechanism of virtuoso on the Berlusconi government had planned for the school by a horse. In the next three years should skip some 150 thousand jobs (100 thousand and 47 thousand teaching posts of administrative staff, technical and auxiliary (Ata) to retrieve the record figure of 8 billion euros.
The decree. The cuts should be under "Provisions on educational organization" and are expressed in percentages or strictly reports to be translated to emerge in all their dimensions. "For the sake of a better qualification of education and full exploitation of professional teaching staff," reads the text of the provisional decree, from school year 2009/2010 will require increasing the pupil / teacher of a point. We are currently around 9.1 pupils per teacher. The goal is to reach by the year 2011/2012 to 10.1. The cost in terms of teaching is estimated by trade unions around 62 thousand units, which must be added the 33 thousand chairs envisaged by the 2008 Budget increased the Prodi government of another 6 per thousand units a "interpretation" of the government on the maneuver 2008. Altogether 101 thousand chairs will go up in smoke.

Then there is a lot of staff Ata. By the 2011/2012 school year is a reduction equal to 17 percent of the amount of organic caretakers, secretarial staff and laboratory technicians. Trade unions have accounted for 47 thousand seats that disappear through the revision of the criteria and parameters for the definition of organic personnel allocations Ata. " According to this hypothesis, schools will have less caretakers to monitor the pupils, staff elle less and less technical secretariats in laboratories.

The reactions. Francesco Scrima Cisl School of Government who speaks "decide wholesale heavy staff cuts without considering the consequences in terms of quality of services provided." It speaks executive who "does not care about the objectives that the school must now obtain, but simply attacking a piece of welfare." It continues: "It cuts the future, we cut the roots on which the country can grow."
"Cut 100 thousand chairs in the next three years - said Rino Di Meglio, Gilda's teacher - would dismantle the state school." Why has said. "Wrong who gives the school waste of public money - says Di Meglio - just to see, for example, the dilapidated state of where the majority of school buildings, overcrowded, a security risk and lacking even desks, chairs and chalk, and the pupil-teacher ratio increasingly disproportionate. Result: investment in education, Italy is the last places in the ranking of developed countries. "
Enrico Panini, leader of FLC CGIL says: "The school is spremono over 8 billion cuts, including those recorded for 2012." And fears disastrous consequences. "To achieve this perverse choice, the devastation of the school network (obtained worsening the current rules to form classes and to determine the posts of workers ATA) - Panini continues - is added to the devastation of laws that for the first time in the history of our Country will be poorer than before. It is assumed, in fact, the return to single teacher in primary school and in secondary, less material and less hours for everyone, from traditional schools for the most popular classes. "
The scenarios. But as you can cut 150 thousand jobs if the previous government has struggled to cut 10 thousand? "If the maneuver was confirmed - said the former Deputy Minister for Education, Mariangela Bastico - These are not measures aimed at streamlining and efficiency of the system, such as those implemented by the previous government. These actions disrupted at the school. The cuts in question can be achieved - continues - are dismantling pieces of the school system. " In what way? "Using the ratio pupils per teacher - explains the Bastico - is improper because in Italy the anomalies which mentions the current government are due, for example, policies for the integration of disabled people." "In Italy the seats determined by the integration of disabled people are about 150 thousand in other weights or there are special schools or these posts are dependents of Social Policies."
And what other areas at risk? "The full-time and the time extended to elementary school - meets the former tenant of Trastevere boulevard - but also the entire public kindergarten and education of adults." It could return to the single teacher primary school and you could adjust the schedules of high school. "On this last point - continues Bastico - are available in the dialogue. You can reduce from 40 to 34 hours in technical and professional but this does not maneuver to cut 100 thousand people. The thing that surprised me most is that the minister Gelmini, in its reports to the Commission, has not hinted at the slightest reduction policies so drastic. " And yet, "the school can not cope with intake every ten retirement," concludes. And for the 300 thousand precarious awaiting inputs role in the future tinge of black.
(24 June 2008)