- The municipal elections are held on March 15 and 22, 2020. Each week, 20 Minutes tackles a theme of the campaign. Today, we are looking at the problem of schools.
- The future mayor cannot ignore the construction of new school groups. A need that has been taken into account by each of the candidates for mayor of Lyon.
- They also wish to revegetate schools in droves and many have looked into the extracurricular offer and the reception in leisure centers deemed insufficient today.
Two hundred schools, 38,000 students and the number of students is constantly increasing. In Lyon, candidates could not ignore education, which represents one of the most important investment sectors in the city. Each year, 500 more students are welcomed, the equivalent of 19 additional classes per year.
As in the previous two mandates, the outgoing municipality built new school groups in response to demographic needs. Two opened in 2019, in the 7th and 8th arrondissements, as well as a temporary school in Blandan in prefabricated form. Two others will open in September, in the 8th and 9th, and three other schools will emerge from the ground by 2023. Despite everything, the needs are still great. Families are eagerly awaiting to improve the extracurricular offer, reception in leisure centers and meals in the canteen. Let's see what are the ways to improve the daily life of schoolchildren.
A need to build
Almost all of the candidates have plans to build new school groups. The dissident candidate Georges Képénékian promises to "make education the city's first budget". He wants to invest 350 million euros on the mandate (much more than the outgoing majority) to bring nine school groups out of the ground. The LREM candidate Yann Cucherat ensures that he will continue the construction program of the outgoing mayor Gérard Collomb and plans 11 new schools in areas in tension.
The centrist Denis Broliquier wants 6 new school groups, as does the candidate LR Etienne Blanc. Socialist Sandrine Runel promises five new schools. Ecologist Grégory Doucet wants to invest 250 million euros in the creation of establishments and the renovation of existing school groups. Only the candidate of the National Rally, Agnès Marion, has planned to carry out an audit on the filling rate of school groups before initiating a construction plan. “There are areas where the schools are not full and others where they overflow. We will have to rebalance first, ”assures the candidate. Even if it means having to review the school map.
Green in schools
Grégory Doucet, who aims to make Lyon the city of children, has as a priority for the schools to "divide up the recreation lessons and green the schools, by adapting the buildings to the heat waves". He was joined on this need to "green" in response to the climate emergency by most of the candidates, like Sandrine Runel or Georges Képénékian. The outgoing mayor of the 2nd Denis Broliquier also wishes to create “islands of freshness”, by planting trees, installing water points or vegetable gardens. Yann Cucherat also wishes to create environmental classes and set up a center dedicated to the Tête d'or park, to accommodate school children, on the Chalet du Parc site. The candidate of the Republicans Etienne Blanc promises him to experience "green school". The idea would be to allow children to benefit from one outdoor day of school per week.
Organic and local, stars of the programs
Today, 40% of the products served in the children's canteen are organic, 55% from local producers located within a radius of 200 km around Lyon. The candidate EELV sets itself the objective of serving "100% of school meals from organic farming and 50% of food of local origin, that is to say produced less than 50 km from the place of consumption" . It promises two exclusively vegetarian meals each week and a daily vegetarian alternative for schoolchildren. The former mayor of Lyon Georges Képénékian plans to see him switch to 100% local and 50% organic and the socialist Sandrine Runel is betting on the organic whole by 2026. "This must be done gradually so as not to have to increase the price of meals for families ”, underlines the socialist candidate.
For the outgoing mayor of the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, improving the quality of meals will involve the creation of two central kitchens to prepare meals. “The current central kitchen in Rillieux prepares 24,000 meals a day. All the specialists estimate that beyond 10,000 meals, the quality cannot be maintained ”, adds the outgoing mayor of the 1st, who wants to end from 2022 the delegation of public service granted to the cuisine of Rillieux.
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A welcome in leisure center and extracurricular to review
This is one of Lyonnais' major difficulties: keeping their children busy at low prices on Wednesday afternoons and during school holidays. On this point, the candidate of the United Left Sandrine Runel assures that she "will double the places in leisure reception on Wednesdays and during school holidays". Georges Képénékian promises that he will organize extracurricular activities all day on Wednesday, with a possible lunch for the children. The outgoing mayor of the 2nd arrondissement proposes to make the extracurricular offer free in schools and to improve the quality of the activities offered to children.
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