In the final text, the government has taken up an amendment providing for an additional 80 million euros to increase the supporters of students with disabilities (AESH) but the oppositions deplore that the deputies could not discuss the first State budgetary position.
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Neither voting nor discussion in the National Assembly on the government’s budgetary choices in terms of school education. After the activation of article 49.3 of the Constitution to have the second part of the finance bill (PLF) 2023 adopted, the debates in public session ended without the first state budget, that of the ‘National Education, could have been put on the agenda. The rejection, Friday, November 4, of the censure motion deposited by the deputies La France rebellious (LFI) and supported by the national rally, confirms the adoption of the PLF at first reading.
The government did not leave the text unchanged. He retained a reborn amendment increasing the funds dedicated to the remuneration of students with disabilities (AESH), one of the pillars of “the inclusive school” by 80 million euros. The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, announced that this would result in an increase in salary of 10 % for AESH from September 2023.
The situation of AESH, precarious due to an already low wage grid and part -time contracts which often limit their income to less than 1,000 euros per month depending on the unions, has been the subject of a lively Watch out for the Cultural and Educational Affairs Committee. Deputies of all stripes had deposited – and sometimes adopted – several amendments to improve their status and their remuneration.
Besides, the lines of the budget for school education have not moved. Of the 3.7 billion euros in additional credits in 2023, 1.7 billion was devoted to the financing of the increase in the public service index, 935 million to the revaluation of teachers from September 2023, and 150 million in the educational innovation fund intended to finance the projects of establishments within the framework of the National Refoundation Council (CNR). The PLF also acts the creation of 4,000 AESH positions, but the abolition of 2,000 teachers, half of which in the first public degree.
A decision justified by demography, according to the ministry, which recalls that 90,000 less students are expected in the 1 er degree in 2023. According to the rue de Grenelle, the ratio between the number students and the number of teachers will however continue to improve in primary school and stagnate in secondary, which lost 10,000 students in 2023. In colleges and high schools, the number of students expected in 2023 is nevertheless higher that in 2017, when the second degree has experienced 7,900 job cuts over the past five years, according to calculations of the SNES-FSU union.
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