Money in educational arrears spread over more municipalities
The majority of the 380 municipalities will receive more money in the coming years to combat educational disadvantage, but 38 municipalities will actually be in decline. The budget is spread over more municipalities.
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This is the result of a new division of the budget for educational disadvantages that Minister Slob wants to introduce step by step next year. It cabinet proposal is open until June 1 for reactions via a internet consultation. On Wednesday May 16 talks the House of Representatives about it.
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The 342 municipalities that will benefit from this will jointly receive an additional 135 million euros. The 38 municipalities that see the budget shrink, have to hand in a total of 15 million euros.
The municipalities with the most surrender in absolute terms, both 5,4 million euros, are Utrecht (thirty percent of the current budget) and Amsterdam (ten percent). The other two G4 municipalities, Rotterdam and The Hague, do not have to hand in.
Relatively speaking, the loss is greatest for Gooise Meren, Lansingerland and Binnenmaas.
Differences in euros (top and bottom three municipalities):
| Township | Current 2018 | New 2020 | Difference € | Difference% |
| Almere | 4.390.000 | 12.127.000 | 7.737.000 | 176% |
| Zaanstad | 4.343.000 | 7.371.000 | 3.028.000 | 70% |
| Nissewaard | 663.000 | 3.460.000 | 2.797.000 | 422% |
| (...) | ||||
| Leiden | 3.200.000 | 2.539.000 | -661.000 | -21% |
| Amsterdam | 56.412.000 | 51.032.000 | -5.380.000 | -10% |
| Utrecht | 18.489.000 | 13.045.000 | -5.444.000 | -29% |
Source: Rijksoverheid.nl
By far the biggest plus is for Almere: the municipality is going from 4,4 million to 12 million euros. Zaanstad will receive an additional three million euros, on top of the current budget of 4,3 million. Relatively speaking, Heerhugowaard and Landgraaf are making the most progress.
Transition
The introduction is accompanied by a transition period of three years, the new distribution must be implemented by 2022.
From 2020, the cabinet will allocate 746 million annually to tackle educational disadvantages. 260 million goes to school boards. The remainder, 486 million, is divided among the municipalities.
This includes the 170 million that the cabinet is making available to improve preschool education. For so-called 'target group toddlers' between the ages of 2,5 and 4, municipalities have to provide XNUMX hours of preschool education, now that is only ten hours. The educational offer must also improve.
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At the same time, the cabinet is working on the knobs, which means that the available budget is spread more over all 380 municipalities. At the moment there are 47 municipalities that do not receive any budget at all.
In addition to a new CBS indicator for educational disadvantage - which takes into account more factors than just the education level of the parents - there will also be other criteria for the distribution of the national budget. Earlier Slob sent for that a number of variants to the House of Representatives.
In the distribution chosen now, the target group is demarcated to the 15 percent children with the greatest risk of educational disadvantage. Linked to this are thresholds that must prevent too much fragmentation.
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Municipalities are eligible for an educational disadvantage budget if at least five percent of the children belong to this disadvantaged group. Municipalities that remain below this threshold will still receive a minimum budget of 64 euros intended to finance at least one pre-school group.
A threshold of twelve percent applies to the funding per school, for which 260 million euros goes to the lump sum of school boards. OCW calculated before for that as a result, more primary school pupils will be funded (7 percent compared to 6,5 percent now), and that the average amount per pupil will fall by about 300 euros.
