It is a political battle that is being played out in the field of education in Toulouse, between the elected representatives of the opposition and the majority. The elected representatives of the group “Toulouse, ecologist, solidarity and citizen”, headed by the former candidate for mayor of Toulouse Antoine Maurice, are launching an “Observatory on Toulouse schools”.

An initiative which will be published, Thursday, December 1, in front of the Anatole France school, boulevard de la Méditerranée, in the presence of parents of students. For municipal opponents, the launch of this school observatory is the result of “a deplorable general observation”.

” Lack of means “

“Education is one of the major skills of the municipality of Toulouse. However, Jean-Luc Moudenc and his majority do not seem to be aware of it”, affirm the elected representatives of the opposition who list various stumbling blocks: “lack of means, exhaustion of agents, strike of Atsem (territorial agent specializing in nursery schools), drop in the extracurricular supervision rate, dilapidated premises, total inadequacy to the high temperatures at the start of summer when it was unbearable temperatures in the classroom from the morning…”

For the opponents, it is a question of creating a “working group in collaboration with parents of pupils to draw up an objective assessment of the state of Toulouse schools”.

If persistent problems in the 210 schools of Toulouse, this inventory is not really to the taste of the majority.

“They observe, we act”

“Them observing, we act, loose with a touch of irony the deputy mayor in charge of education Marion Lalane de Laubadère. It’s politics. The figures are there: education is the first budget of the city with 348.5 million euros on the mandate. In total, over two mandates, we will have spent more than one billion euros on schools. We can say what we want, but the reality is that we are doing our best to renovate the heterogeneous heritage of the 210 schools. We created ten school groups during the first term, eleven are programs for this term, ie 23 schools (nursery and elementary), and 21 extension/renovation operations are also planned. You can’t solve everything with a wave of a magic wand”.

However, the elected representatives of the opposition, who want to be “the voice of the parents of students”, note “a glaring gap between the communication of the municipal majority and the feedback from the field that we receive constantly”.