Presidential 2022: Hidalgo no longer offers to double the salaries of teachers, but … – The HuffPost

France Inter

POLICY – To double or not to double teachers’ salaries? Anne Hidalgo, which presents this Thursday, January 13 its program for the 2022 presidential, had made it one of its flagship proposals. But she eventually changed her vocabulary (and also her method) slightly to achieve her goals.

A few hours before the official presentation at the headquarters of the PS, the socialist candidate gave a taste of his program at the microphone of France Inter. And while the National Education marks its disagreement with the government of Emmanuel Macron by a strike this Thursday, it returned to its flagship measure for the sector: the “doubling of wages” … finally slightly revised and corrected.

“We will start with the salaries of school teachers. These teachers start their index grid at 1700 euros, while they are bac + 5 and a bac + 5 in France is recruited around 2300 euros at the start of their career ”, explained the candidate PS. She therefore wishes to “bring” them initially “to this level of recruitment”.

Even before formalizing her candidacy, Anne Hidalgo had spoken in her book A french woman for a “great movement to revalue salaries” in education. She judged “possible, over the duration of a five-year term, to multiply by at least two the salaries of all the people in contact with the pupils.”

The measure had earned him an avalanche of criticism from his detractors. The idea had not really convinced the teachers either, tired of “nutty” promises like they explained it to HuffPost in this report.

Could it be for this reason that Anne Hidalgo gave up using the term “doubling”, which suggests an immediate substantial increase? She admitted that if “there is not the word ‘doubling’”, her method remains “exactly” the same as what she wrote in her book.

“On the index scale, over the duration of the career and over several years of course – that is to say a five-year term or even a little more – we arrive at the level which is that of the remuneration of teachers everywhere in Europe, and which is double the remuneration of our teachers, ”she explained.

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