Sardinia “punished” for rejecting the national school size plan .
The Meloni government , explains President Todde, is preparing a decree excluding the island from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) funds earmarked for school staff . Article 19 of the measure, which has not yet been approved, excludes Sardinia from the distribution of EU resources for schools.
"It's not a technical error," explains the president, "it's a decision that directly affects Sardinian students, teachers, ATA staff, and communities already affected by geographic isolation, demographic decline, and structural fragility."
"Unacceptable discrimination," thunders the governor, justifying the failure of the Region to independently adopt the national school sizing plan . A plan then reluctantly imposed by the government-appointed commissioner, which has led to the cutting of another nine school autonomies , adding to the 38 lost in the last three years. These mergers, it should be noted, only concern school principals.
The national executive had also repeatedly reiterated that the sizing was necessary to avoid losing the resources of the NRRP and that the plan had essentially been "inherited," agreed upon by the previous government with the EU Commission.
All "decisions made by the State," Todde continues, "the same State that now seeks to punish Sardinia by using NRRP funds as a tool of institutional pressure." This, Todde concludes, calling for the "immediate withdrawal" of the decree and the island's full access to resources, "means fewer staff, fewer services in schools, less support for students, and a lower quality of educational offerings ." In short, "an attack on the right to education."
"After merging 38 school districts over the past three years and another nine this year under the auspices of the ministerial commissioner, the government has decided to further harm students by denying Sardinian school districts access to funding for teaching and administrative staff," stated Councilor for Education Ilaria Portas . "This penalizes young people who will not be able to access the essential services of staff dedicated to the functioning of the school system."
(Unioneonline/L)