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08 July 2020 
 "I welcome the possibility of carrying out serological tests on all school staff, in view of the start of the new school year. A measure I advocated that would guarantee greater safety on my return in September and on which the Ministry of health, to define methods and times ". So the Minister for Education Lucia Azzolina in the VII commission in the Senate after the hearing of 1 July on the ministry's initiatives related to the covid-19 epidemiological emergency and on the start of the next school year.

"The support of Commissioner Arcuri - said Azzolina - will be indispensable with a view to speeding up the bureaucratic processes. For this reason, I confirm the satisfaction for the aforementioned appointment".

The minister also announced the start of procedures for new hires: "The request to the MEF for over 80,000 permanent hires of teaching staff for the 2020/2021 school year is being finalized".

"Distance teaching, in this sense - explained the minister - represented a useful tool to maintain contact with our students and to demonstrate closeness to their families, also and above all in all those situations of difficulty and disadvantage that they risked widening the already existing territorial and social gaps that we have the duty to reduce and fight ". "It is for this reason that in the document for the planning of school, educational and training activities that constitutes the Plan for the reopening of schools in September, specific guidelines are being defined for the use of integrated digital teaching, precisely because it is clear that its main function is to integrate and not replace the learning path, as a further powerful methodological and didactic tool, in an ordinary and extraordinary way ", explains Azzolina. Then the minister said: "Of what painstakingly achieved by the Italian teachers during the period of the emergency we intend to ensure that nothing, absolutely nothing can be lost. We intend to enhance it, make it a wealth, transform the experience had in continuous educational action depth. " 

"Already in the coming weeks - Azzolina announced - there will be special training spaces, for all school staff, on digital issues and on the return of insecurity".