School, Azzolina sees unions on health emergency and budget law: “3,7 billion in maneuver for Education. Covid common enemy, it is defeated by being united "
In the budget law recently approved by the government there are "3,7 billion for schools". Thus the Minister of Education, Lucia Azzolina, in today's meeting with the trade unions which concerned the maneuver, but also the management of the health emergency. “I worked so that the school could have its strong weight in the budget law - explained Azzolina -. We have 2,2 billion of current expenditure and 1,5 of capital expenditure 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 overcrowding of classrooms, to increase digitization.
The management of the health emergency was also at the center of the meeting. “We all spent the summer making schools safer - recalled the Minister -. Zero risk does not exist, but we have precise rules and protocols to be implemented ". Azzolina then reiterated the importance of keeping the school open, which “is not only a place of learning, but also of socializing, a place where you learn rules and, in certain territories, are removed from the street. Taking away the school in the presence risks being even dangerous ”. For the restart “3 billion have been put in, we have done light construction work guaranteeing 40 more classrooms, technological tools and new furnishings 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. The effort is maximum. This - the Minister closed - is a difficult moment for the country, but the common enemy is only one, Covid. Italy wins the challenge if it remains united. And the school is a place of unity par excellence ”.