Fenprof wants the Government to explain how it will cut 300 million euros in personnel expenses in education, as provided for in the state budget without dismissing teachers or transfer the payment of wages for Community funds.
“How does the state saves 300 million in human resources in education, if this is a year not only of funds for maintenance, but that will have to be enhanced budget, since it will replace the wages in full “ , questioned the secretary general of the National Teachers Federation (Fenprof), Mário Nogueira, in a press conference this Thursday, in Lisbon, convened to a balance of the first hundred days of the government.
according to Lusa, for the trade union federation, this court personnel in Education, under the heading concerning the public administration, the State Budget (OE) 2016, can only have two explanations: either the Ministry of Education (ME) intends to lay off teachers and “further reduce the number of teachers, which is an absolutely unthinkable thing”, or want to transfer the payment of salaries of teachers for funds Community, removing that expense of the State Budget, which “is unacceptable” because these payments relate to salaries of people who are part of the staff of the schools.
“in any case, we disagree and we realize it. We want to be informed by the Minister of Education, because we may be dealing here with a situation that is complicated and it can also cause more unemployment, more unstable and more precarious, with more difficulties for schools in its operation “ said Mario Nogueira.
the union leader said that the Fenprof will ask for a meeting to the Minister, to clarify these issues and to propose the appointment of four business processes.
the union federation wants the ME clarify that teachers’ roles must be classified within the letiva component of the time; want to discuss the conditions under which teachers can ask for retirement, arguing that, with 40 years of service, regardless of age, teachers should be able this year to ask for reform; wants a review “more global” teachers contests scheme; and want to discuss the fight against insecurity among teachers.
According to the accounts of Fenprof, there are over 50,000 teachers in precarious situation, “a good part” of which are, says the federation, false green receipts.
Fenprof is shortly planning to present a national survey concerning this situation, but noted already, for example, the case of more than 800 teachers hired by the IEFP, which should be to work green receipts, although the contracts are for three years and with a defined working hours.
While on another survey that Fenprof is promoting on the school supply of duplication between public and private schools, Mário Nogueira said that the organization estimates that 80% of the existing association agreements represent an offer duplication.
the association agreements are signed between the state and private schools, created to provide public funding to schools always they ensure the opening of classes where there is shortage of public offering.
However, he stressed Mário Nogueira, “the bottom line” is the need to change the rule in the Statute of Private and Cooperative Education, which since 2013 no longer requires that these contracts exist only in deprived areas of public schools.
About the balance of the first hundred days of the government, Fenprof considered positive, they are given “signs constituting change of evidence “- as the end of the School of Hiring Exchange or teacher evaluation test – but” no more than that. “
Mário Nogueira said he was, however,” concerned about the next 296 days, “emphasizing that regardless of” statistical exercises “and accounts that the minister do, there is a cut of 82 million euros in the education budget.
in the same press conference, Mario Nogueira defended Thursday to free school books should be extended to the entire compulsory education, and called for “a manual of policy” that promotes reuse and do not feed the business of publishing.
“the measure should cover all compulsory education and to think that this is not even a measure that has a weight so great in the state budget [OE]. Accounts made, is less than 1% of the OE “ , said the secretary general of the National Teachers Federation.
The leader of the trade union federation commented the news that textbooks will be free in the next school year for the students of the 1st year of the 1st cycle of basic education, a measure that the Ministry of Education (ME) estimates that costs three million euros.
“we also found that not only offer students, particularly at primary level until the entire compulsory education manuals. We must also find a way to, on the one hand, the manuals themselves can be reused, because behind the textbooks, there is a great deal, made by publishers and booksellers “ , said Mário Nogueira .
the leader of Fenprof, which ranked the sale of school textbooks as “a tremendous business,” joked, comparing the situation with the price of airline tickets to the Azores.
“the publishers and booksellers, tomorrow, to make as do the Azores airlines raise prices at certain times, because the state pays them the difference [that the Azorean citizen does not have to pay], and here is a bit the same. One of these days, we have the booksellers to make a big deal because, as the weight is not on the families, the challenge ceases to exist and, therefore, is the state, we are, to have to pay it, “said Nogueira.
for Fenprof, “we need to think more and go a little further,” to reach “a schoolbook policy that has to be more than just pay.”
the Ministry of Education confirmed on Wednesday, the free distribution of textbooks for students of the 1st grade, starting next school year, following an amendment PCP to the state budget.
“the school year 2016/2017 will be the year zero of this measure and will cover all students of the 1st year of the 1st cycle of basic education. This year zero, textbooks will be distributed for free. The other teaching resources are not included in the measure at this early stage. The cost of implementing this measure, the year zero, is estimated at about three million euros for the 2016/2017 school year, “said Lusa the Ministry.
On the table is the discussion a model that aims to make free not only manuals, but all teaching resources, and for all the years of compulsory education.
“in order to effect this model in all educational cycles, one will be made working group, which held a multi-year implementation plan gratuitousness model in the acquisition and reuse of textbooks and teaching resources, “explained the protection.
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