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Is college the one most forgotten by the Congress of Mayors? Of the forty occasions supplied from November 18 to twenty in Paris, solely two speak about college. At the daybreak of the municipal elections in March 2026, that is not a lot. And but, it’s within the municipalities {that a} decisive a part of the way forward for colleges is being performed out: the place mayors are already inventing concrete academic responses day by day.
At a time when the manager is struggling to discover a course, the function of municipalities within the lives of youngsters and of their academic success is proving decisive, and their dedication decisive. Educational gamers in their very own proper, municipalities are guarantors of obligatory schooling, coordinators of native initiatives and promoters of tasks which concretely enhance the each day lives of youngsters and households.
Here a city makes the canteen a spot of schooling: the youngsters select the menus and develop greens within the city backyard. Elsewhere, a metropolis entails lecturers and researchers within the design of the playground to make it a dwelling and studying area. More incessantly, mayors develop partnerships with artisans to counterpoint the vary of extracurricular actions or handle ecological points the place different elected officers present municipal help for “school outside”.
These initiatives show that by abilities wrongly thought of “technical” in buildings, canteens or after-school actions, mayors and their groups contribute very on to academic success.
Education thus stays one of many important expenditure objects for municipalities: on common, virtually half of a group’s working finances is absorbed by major schooling.
Article 72 of the Constitution enshrines the precept of free administration of communities and offers them the chance to experiment. Concretely, which means that they will, for a restricted time and a selected function, deviate from nationwide guidelines to be able to check options higher suited to their territory. This chance responds to the range of native realities and presents the liberty to innovate, whereas remaining anchored to the republican framework.
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