There is a clash between the unions and the regional school office on support and study permits. "The regional school office weakens the right to study of school personnel and chooses not to recognize the specificities and needs of the Sardinian school, hiding them under a carpet of bureaucracy and small savings."

This is the accusation of the unions Flc Cgil, Fsur Cisl, Snals Confsal, Gilda Unams, Anief, five category acronyms united in the protest: «The Usr», accuse the unions, «has refused to accept the requests put forward at the negotiating table».

"It's absolutely not true," retorts the regional school director Francesco Feliziani, who explains that the requests were not supported by the current legislation. First of all, the issue of training courses for support: "Only a quarter of the three thousand support chairs are covered by teachers with a degree," accuse the unions, "but the Usr did not want to grant priority in the enjoyment of the right to study for those attending university courses. This year, for example, many were left without permits and had to resign or take leave in order to attend to obtain the degree."

Another critical point is - the unions accuse - "the failure to grant a few hours of leave to allow school staff to prepare and take university exams or the thesis itself". And again, the unions say, "since those who win a competition, before being hired on a permanent basis, must undergo a qualifying process, the unions have asked the School Office to recognize and support this need". Feliziani's vision is different: "As for support, as soon as the courses were activated in the fall, the USR, through its provincial offices, immediately reopened the terms to be able to distribute the hours that were left for the current year to those who were supposed to attend these courses. Therefore, the controversy over the people who would be left without the possibility of being able to benefit from the permits derives from the fact that the number of hours available to each USR each year is a percentage calculated with respect to the staff in service and is not a quota set by the School Office. The unions asked for a graduation, in the possibility of using the hours, which would have favored, with the same type of courses, discriminating between providers (universities and online universities). We explained that such a differentiation would have been discriminatory with respect to the current legislation".