Jean Michel Blanquer, Tuesday October 20 at the Assembly.

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Jean-Michel Blanquer launches this Thursday a "Grenelle of education" supposed to put more teachers "at the center of society".

If this event has been scheduled since August, the assassination of Samuel Paty has upset the program of the ministry, highlighting the difficult teaching profession.

The Grenelle de l'Education should already allow an increase in teachers' salaries or additional protection measures.

But it has been reviewed since the assassination of Samuel Paty to put more emphasis on “the professor at the center of society”.

“Today, there is a subject of protecting teachers but also of recognizing teachers.

This question existed before and we must give it an answer, ”Jean-Michel Blanquer announced on Wednesday during questions to the government in the Senate.

A “central” role in society

The Grenelle education "is based on key words, that of financial recognition, cooperation, that is to say teamwork, modernization and protection", detailed the Minister.

Beyond this increase, "which will particularly affect the youngest, but which could also affect all teachers, is the transformation of our system, especially for local human resources, in other words a system of national education much less anonymous, much more attached to what happens to each teacher and to follow him in his career, which will show the gratitude of the country to all the teachers and beyond all the measures that we will take ”, a added Jean-Michel Blanquer.

A rising budget

Before the Grenelle education, a meeting will take place Thursday morning with the teachers' unions to discuss the day of November 2, which will correspond to the start of the school year after the All Saints holidays.

Asked about the content of this day, Jean-Michel Blanquer has already asked "all elected officials of the Republic, municipal councilors, mayors, senators, to be present with teachers on the day of this return ".

The 2021 budget of the ministry has been increased by 400 million euros (500 million in a full year), in order to increase the salaries of French teachers, which is 7% lower at the start of their career than the average for the countries of the Organization of economic cooperation and development (OECD).

The budget increase must finance various bonuses, in particular an attractiveness bonus (260 million euros for a full year) targeting early and mid-career staff, as well as a computer equipment bonus (178 million euros ) 150 euros net annually for each teacher.

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