The Ministry of National Education had not communicated on the reduction in overtime envelopes in establishments from the end of the school year, which several rectorates had announced, Monday April 29 and Tuesday April 30. But, faced with the resounding outcry, it was he who promptly made it known, in a press release sent on Wednesday 1er May, that Minister Nicole Belloubet had “gave instructions that, as soon as [jeudi]the academies recover the budgetary resources initially notified in order to continue the allocation of overtime in the establishments.
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“In accordance with the priority given to national education by the government, the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Education and Youth hoped that educational establishments would continue to have the means to carry out their missions”argues the press release, meaning that Matignon – and therefore the head of government and former minister of national education, Gabriel Attal – had influenced this turnaround.
The information, given to several union representatives and relayed by the press, of a reduction in overtime available to middle and high schools for the last two months of the school year, followed, in several academies, by the suspension of the application of management of these resources, provoked, Tuesday April 30, a torrent of indignation in educational establishments.
This arbitration was part of the savings plan announced by Bercy of 10 billion euros for 2024, including 683 million euros for the Ministry of National Education. He had, therefore, asked each academy to reduce the scale on, among other things, overtime by the end of the calendar year. In the academies of Paris, Créteil, Versailles, Lyon and even Toulouse and Bordeaux, the rectorates had announced a withdrawal of these resources at the end of this school year.
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The hours concerned pay the teachers who provide refresher courses during the holidays, support actions, short-term replacements or even homework help (the system called “Homework Done”) at the college. There was also a question of cutting back on “special mission allowances”, allocated to payment for missions carried out outside of student teaching time, such as the coordination of sporting or artistic activities or the function of digital or disability referent.
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