Died this Saturday, January 4, Claude Allègre was known for these many shocking sentences at the time when he was Lionel Jospin’s Minister of National Education.
“We have to degrease the mammoth.” Many remember the little sentence dropped by Claude Allègre in June 1997, barely three weeks after his appointment to the Ministry of National Education.
An outing assumed by this close friend of Lionel Jospin – who has paternal ties to Prades-le-Lez and maternal ties to Ceilhes, between Hérault and Aveyron – and which is the starting point of a long conflict with the teachers, embellished other shocking sentences.
A resignation in 2000
“Teachers have four months of vacation and, in addition, they take their training leave for schooling” he also wavered, also more or less assimilating national education “the red army”.
Without forgetting the contested figures considered far too high that he had put forward to stigmatize… the rate of teacher absenteeism.
-This led to numerous demonstrations which led to the resignation of Claude Allègre in March 2000. His record includes his reform of the management of teaching staff and the reduction of teachers’ overtime pay.
Claude Allègre also gave his name to a law on innovation and research, which allows academics to file patents and create start-ups.
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