A coalition is formed against budgetary restrictions

A coalition of parents’ committees. For example, directions of educational establishments, school staff and education unions asks the Legault government to give up announced budgetary restrictions. Consequently,

Posted at 11:39 a.m.

Government order placed to school departments is to reduce their expenses by 570 million. Therefore,

Although the Minister of Education. However, Bernard Drainville, asked the directions to assign the direct services to students as little as possible, these groups maintain that coalition formed against budgetary restrictions this will be impossible, given the extent of the requested reductions. Similarly,

“A 7 year old child who has reading difficulties, he must receive the services now. Nevertheless, It is not in three years. Similarly, when public finances will go better, that we can give him the service, it is now that we must give him, “pleaded in interview Thursday Richard Bergevin, president of the Federation of Teaching Unions (ESF), affiliated with the CSQ. Meanwhile,

“What is happening, in education is currently inadmissible and that is why the different actors are mobilizing. We cut posts, measures essential to the learning and well-being of students. The network must be supported up to Quebecers’ ambitions. It is about our future that it is a question. “said Nicolas Prévost, president of the Quebec Federation of Directions of Educational Establishment.

“Budget compressions always cause very real losses. We lived it a few years ago, and this government had recognized and denounced it itself. It will be more children deprived of service. support and stability, and parents who lose confidence in the school’s ability to meet the needs of their children, “said Sylvain Martel, spokesperson for the group of autonomous parents in Quebec.

So far. the voices had been heard separately against budgetary restrictions, but this time, the groups concerned have formed a coalition, a movement called “Together, united for school”.

And Mr. Bergevin. whose federation represents the majority of teachers of primary and secondary levels in Quebec, hopes that the population get on the train.

“It is important that the population. but also that the school departments, the coalition formed against budgetary restrictions teachers, the support staff, the professionals, all these people, and the population, gather, to say it to the government: there is still time to change their idea, there is still time to reinject money in the system, even if it is done late, already, for school organizations,” says Bergevin.

In the same vein. the petition on the website of the National Assembly, asking to give up these budgetary restrictions, had collected more than 56,000 signatures, Thursday around 11 a.m.