In an interview with the "Journal du Dimanche" two days before the start of the school year over which hangs the shadow of the coronavirus, the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announces the launch of a "Grenelle des professors" which must in particular make it possible to establish financial recognition and modernize the education system. 

The professors were "very dedicated and committed" during the coronavirus crisis. If 55% of teachers say they are pessimistic according to a survey of the teachers' union, Jean-Michel Blanquer intends to restore their confidence by sweeping the unease creeping in this profession for years. In an interview with the JDD , the Minister of National Education announces the launch of a "Teachers' Grenelle".

Financial recognition

"By October, we will discuss the increase in salaries for 2021. And from November, we will negotiate to define a multiannual programming law," said the minister. But this project is not only intended to enhance the financial value of this profession, it must also "improve well-being at work". Jean-Michel Blanquer therefore wants a "profound transformation of the educational system, of the management of human resources, in the place of teachers in society". 

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The "virtuous circle of well-being"

To reinforce what the minister calls the "virtuous circle of well-being", the Grenelle teachers' meeting must be based on three acts: financial recognition, therefore, but also cooperation and modernization. Objectives which will be discussed from the start of the school year by working groups with trade unions, and the culmination of which will be "an international conference on the teacher of the 21st century" in December.