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October 30, 2020 "Schools must be the last thing to close; many countries in Europe and beyond do not close schools. Zero risk does not exist but risks can be minimized".

According to what has been learned, the Minister of Education Lucia Azzolina would have said this in the meeting this morning with the unions on the maneuver and management of the health emergency.

"Closing schools must be the last resort. We must go to school as much as possible and work for the return in the presence of the second cycle".

On closures, according to what is learned, the sector unions think like the minister.

The trade unions have asked to reaffirm the centrality of education, avoiding as much as possible the closure of educational institutions.

On this, they told the minister, "he will have our support".

For Azzolina, the school is not only a place of learning, but also of socializing, a place where you learn rules and, in indeterminate territories, you are taken away from the street. to be even dangerous ".

For the restart "3 billion have been put in, we have done light construction work guaranteeing 40 thousand more classrooms, technological tools and new furniture have been purchased. Structural investments that will remain. With the Ristori Decree we have allocated another 85 million for digital teaching , in these days I signed a 3.6 million decree for connections in the second cycle ".

In the budget law recently approved by the government, there are "3.7 billion for schools", Azzolina then specified.

"I worked so that the school could have its strong weight in the budget law - he explained - We have 2.2 billion in current expenditure and 1.5 in capital account spending for investments", resources with which we will intervene on support with an extraordinary plan to increase teachers, on school buildings and with which we will work to reduce the overcrowding of classrooms, to increase digitization ".

The effort that has been made to the reopening of the school was "maximum.

This is a difficult time for the country, but there is only one common enemy, Covid.

Italy wins the challenge if it remains united.

And the school is a place of unity par excellence ", said the minister at the end of the meeting.