Close, in the rectorate of Paris, 50 classes in private education to open 50 in the public, such is the wish presented to the Paris Council, Thursday, February 13, by the Communist and Citizen Group (GCC). This wish is carried in a tense context: 198 posts in public education should indeed be suppressed at the next school year in the capital, including 110 in the first degree.
These closures are justified by ” a decrease important in Paris ”, reflected in “The allocation of means”, Justified, Tuesday, February 11, Élisabeth Borne. The Minister of National Education was challenged by Parisian teachers, massively on strike that day to protest against the decrease in the number of positions, the Parisian abolitions representing 40 % of all of the positions of positions announced in France for September . The rectorate of Paris also ensured the maintenance of a framework rate at 20 students per class.
3,200 fewer students for 2025 in the public, stable numbers in the private sector
But if Parisian public schools have lost 33,689 students since 2010, according to figures from the Paris rectorate, and if, for the start of the 2025 school year, forecasts report 3,200 students, the situation is not the same in Private education under contract. On the Catholic education side, which represents more than 75 % of the private under contract in Paris, 147 additional students were registered in September 2024. “The workforce is stable and the pressure at registration remains significant in certain districts”, confirms the diocesan director Jean-François Canteneur.
The rectorate still requested the withdrawal of 45 jobs for Catholic establishments, and 5 in the non -denominational private. “We are not going to close classes in proportion, but reorganize», Specifies Étienne Tercinier, human resources manager of diocesan management. “But we will not be able to keep the pace of public closure because the demographic decline impacts us less”, warns Jean-François Canteneur.
Social diversity issue
Jean-Noël Aqua, Councilor of Paris (GCC), who carries the wish to the Council of Paris, Thursday, February 13, does not hear it by this ear. “The private Parisian includes an ever -increasing share of students who come from other municipalities”, he supports. The elected communist therefore considers that there is no reason that, linked to demography, class closures do not affect the private sector in a proportional manner, which represents 31 % of students educated in Paris, compared to audience. “If we do nothing, the private sector will weigh in a few years for 50 % of students educated in Paris, warns Jean-Noël Aqua. However, it is already the most segregated academy, with real problems of social diversity.»
This issue is not denied on the side of Catholic education, which notes an evolution of the profile of families which choose it since the 2000s, and which signed a protocol with the Ministry of Education in 2023 to participate in the ‘Social diversity effort. “A distorted vision is to believe that it is the private who chooses his students, but it is the opposite, it is the parents who choose the private school, Explicit Jean-François Canteneur. But if we are enjoined to close classes when the request is there, we will become even less accessible, even though we are asked to strengthen social diversity in our establishments. »»
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