School, Conte: "We return to class on September 14 in maximum safety"

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"The government has been working for some time involving the whole world of education. We have prepared ourselves, with the guidelines, to return safely to September". The premier Giuseppe Conte says it during a press conference at Palazzo Chigi. "Closing schools was a very painful choice, which no one thinks the government took lightly," he adds.

School, by Regions and Local Authorities yes to the guidelines for the return in September
Regions and Local Authorities have given the green light to the new guidelines for the return to school from September. The State-Regions conference on school has just ended. An explicit reference to physical distancing

has been included in the new draft document on the guidelines, which recalls the recommendations of the Scientific Technical Committee. "Physical distancing, understood as a yardstick between the pupils' mouths - the editors' ', remains a point of primary importance in prevention actions," reads the draft.

The new draft of the Return Plan provides for the establishment of "Conferences of services, on the initiative of the competent Local Authority, with the involvement of school managers, aimed at analyzing the critical issues of the educational institutions that insist on the reference territory of the conferences".

"The purpose - reads the draft - will be to collect requests from schools with particular reference to spaces, furnishings, construction in order to identify methods, interventions and solutions that take into account the resources available in the area in response to the needs expressed" .

Boccia: very satisfied
Francesco Boccia expresses "great satisfaction", adding that "also on this occasion the loyal and strong collaboration between government, regions and local authorities has given a positive result, as happened for other key sectors (trade, local public transport , personal services and industry). The intense work of these days allows to restore confidence in the world of school: teachers, students, families, ATA staff, can look at the beginning of the next school year, trusting in an orderly and safe reopening from a health point of view. The method experimented during the critical phases of the Covid-19 emergency is proving to be useful for dealing with many open questions in our country and certainly the school is perhaps the most crucial one. I thank the Conference of the Regions, Anci, Upi and all those who have made a concrete contribution to achieve this goal: being able to reach a unity of purpose after a serious and in-depth discussion is certainly a reason for great satisfaction ".

Hope: government-local authorities agreement is a step forward
"The agreement found today between government, regions, provinces and municipalities on the guidelines for the reopening of schools is an important first step forward. Now we must continue to work together even with the maximum involvement of social forces ". So the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza. "It is essential - he said - to invest huge new resources to guarantee the reopening of all schools in maximum safety. It is a fundamental objective on which the whole country must be united".

Yesterday, during the CdM, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina asked for a billion more in view of the reopening of the schools in September, a request that agreed with the ministers present and that should fall within the new budget gap.

Bonaccini: determining role of the Regions
"An excellent result" and "The Regions have had a determining role in the construction of a 2020-2021 School Plan that would respond as much as possible to the different needs of teachers and school managers, students and local authorities ". This is the comment of the President of the Conference of the Regions, Stefano Bonaccini. "I also want to thank the minister, Lucia Azzolina, for the availability of the comparison - he continues -. We have worked hard on this text in the awareness that the reopening of schools is the first sign of a country that really starts again. Now the text has improved considerably thanks to to the contribution and pragmatism of the councilors for education of the Regions who have had a constant dialogue with the ministry until the end. Today's represents a further response to the detractors of institutional consultation ".

"The Government - Bonaccini explains - we reiterated three fundamental political issues. First of all, adequate resources are needed to implement the organizational and educational solutions envisaged by the Plan and for this reason it is necessary to increase the planned fund by at least one billion euros, on which, however, they have had precise reassurances from the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina. A net increase in teaching staff and ATA is also needed. Indeed, an adequate increase must be envisaged to ensure the recovery of the cuts made on teachers' common places on the staff 2020-2021, to bring them back at the levels of the previous school year, while preserving the already authorized staff, as well as a temporary increase in the quotas, to achieve a strengthening of the 'emergency staff', which will allow us to better face the delicate school year at the door. : urgently - concludes Bonaccini - a Government-Regions comparison table on this question nor of transport, both from an economic point of view and from the organization of the service ".