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'Money boxes for suitable education to the classroom by the end of 2022'

The sky-high financial reserves in many partnerships for appropriate education will be shelved in 2022. At least, that's what the organizations themselves say in a joint plan approved by outgoing education minister Arie Slob.

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Slob threatened to cut funding for the 152 organizations if they did not come up with a plan to reduce the excessive buffers more quickly. Since the introduction of appropriate education, more and more money has been made on the shelf to lay down. In total, this involves EUR 260 million in equity, of which the Education Inspectorate considers some EUR 175 million to be 'possible excessively'. In the House of Representatives and beyond, these unnecessary reserves led to considerable irritation.

The plan, which has not been made public by Slob, aims to phase out the excessive buffers by 2022 'with a limited extension to 2023'. Now it is up to individual partnerships to come up with concrete elaborations for their own region this spring. Slob is not completely taking the penalty discount off the table he writes in a letter to the House of Representatives. If progress lags behind or monitoring leaves something to be desired, he still threatens to cut government funding.

Target audience

The reserves approach is one of the components of one 25-point program that Slob presented at the end of last year to tackle the problems surrounding appropriate education. He writes about this in the letter that he is working with no fewer than 23 educational organizations on an action plan for the coming years. This autumn, the House of Representatives will receive a first progress report.

Slob has already formulated an answer to one question: which pupils exactly form the target group of appropriate education? At the evaluation research During the first five years, it turned out that this question was not clearly worked out anywhere. It concerns a group of 500 thousand students who are in need of basic support (such as support for dyslexia, dyscalculia and giftedness) within regular education or for extra support. According to Slob, this group consists of 350 thousand pupils in regular primary education (a quarter of the total), 140 thousand pupils in special primary education, (secondary) special education and practical education, and 10 thousand home-sitters.

Pupils in learning support education (LWOO) are also included, but since partnerships have been able to let go of the national criteria, the view of the numbers has become blurred. Basic education has a total of 2,4 million students.

How big is the piggy bank of your own partnership? The Education Magazine stated last year this overview together.

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