Small schools disappear, the government promises rescue. “Treatment of polyoprine cancer”
Only in the Lublin region, the curator agreed to close a larger number of schools than a year earlier was liquidated all over Poland – according to the findings of tvn24.pl. Minister of Education Barbara Nowacka argues that “nothing is not happening”, but also admits: – If there is no school somewhere, the local government will soon cease to be needed.
When the commune head, mayor or city president want to liquidate an educational institution, they need two things for this – a resolution of the commune council, and then the opinion of a probation officer. The latter for several years thanks to Minister Anna Zalewska have the right of veto in this matter. They can say “no” to local government officials. And thus protect the school.
In recent years, curators have done it often. However, as experts emphasize, they often did it without supporting the current law. In the analysis by Katarzyna Liszka-Michałka and Katarzyna Sekuła, “Reasons for negative provisions of education curators in the procedure of liquidation or transformation of schools and public institutions” we read, among others that curators often reached for the premises of “non -legal, arbitrary and assessment”.
Translating from the legal language into life practice – they often did not agree to the liquidation of schools, because this was what they seemed right. And the tvn24.pl portal determined that Between 2016 and 2019, they did not agree to the closure of at least 400 schools. Even one where there were barely a dozen or so students.
In turn, from the data, which she transferred to the Minister's MPs on April 3 Barbara Nowacka It appeared that in the past years the percentage of consents to closing the facility was from 70 to 84 percent.
Due to the fact that the most applications for the liquidation of schools are received just after the local government elections, and the election calendar then favors the closing of small institutions, on tvn24.pl for several weeks we have been looking at this year's installment of “Action Liquidation”.
The topic arouses a lot of political emotions. Because disappointed by closing small rural institutions, parents and teachers working in them are potential voters. That is why MPs write numerous interpellations in matters of small schools. And therefore, on April 3, they convened a special meeting of the Sejm Education Commission in this matter. PiS deputies They expected that Minister Barbara Nowacka would translate from insufficient – in their opinion – protecting small facilities.
MP Lidia Burzyńska from PiS, in the past, a history teacher, says: – The specter hung over Polish education.
Schools in the east disappear more often
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