100 million towards teacher shortage emergency plans
Minister Arie Slob is looking for 100 million euros to finance the emergency plans of five large cities against the teacher shortage. He said this this week in a parliamentary debate about the crisis in education: "My commitment is to ensure that we will find those funds."
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Slob received emergency plans from The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam last January. Among other things, they want their teachers in primary and special education to receive a higher salary. 'After all, teaching in a metropolitan context demands more from a teacher than teaching outside the G4', wrote the aldermen.
Furthermore, these three major cities want gym, music or high school teachers to be able to stand in front of a primary school class in emergency situations. Amsterdam also wants to make a four-day lesson week possible, wrote the AD in January. On day five, pupils go to school, but they must be taught, for example, in art or sports by someone who is not a teacher.
Slob is still waiting for the plans of Utrecht and Almere. He expects it in April. “Not all parts of the plans are just a matter of: money must be provided,” emphasized the minister. The school boards in the G5 also have to agree a lot among themselves: “How they deal with the employment agencies (…), that you do not take teachers away from each other for a year. And it contains agreements about how you can guide those side entrants properly together. ”
potpourri
AObdirector Jelmer Evers was at the parliamentary debate. He found the potpourri of potential measures against the personnel crisis in education striking. Evers: “It went in all directions. I found it particularly disappointing that there was no prospect of a structural solution. How are we going to prevent these emergency plans from becoming structural? There was no answer. ”
Especially in secondary education, the teacher shortage is still an invisible problem
This week the House again expressed its concern about the lack of current figures on the teacher shortage. Last year she already passed a motion calling on Minister Slob to officially register and keep track of teacher shortages, emergency solutions and canceled lessons. This ensures that the scope of the problem is clear. Until now, the cabinet has not implemented this motion.
Evers: “The day before, a student told me that he had only had a handful of mathematics lessons in his entire exam year. We need to understand that these things are happening now. The problem is still invisible, especially in secondary education. ”
De AOb has been campaigning since last Tuesday. The union calls on parents, education staff and pupils / students to report class cancellations and emergency solutions this form (until March 17). The AOb forward the reports to the Education Inspectorate.
