Failing to Tackle the Priority Education Map, the Minister Unveils a Plan for Colleges in Great Difficulty

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Edouard Geffray, the Minister of Education, visited Amiens this Friday 9 January to launch a reinforced accompanying plan for the 15% of the schools most in difficulty. Trade unions deplore an umpteenth measure to postpone the recast of the priority education card.

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The Minister announces that he will act in favour of 15% of colleges that "have a significant proportion of students whose results are less than 8/20 in French and mathematics" at the DNB. He expects a "qualitative leap", without any guarantee of additional resources. In the long run this policy could lead the ministry to favour these 15% colleges at the expense of the 20% labeled by completely abandoning the priority social education policy to …