School to the streets against the reform. Pharaoh no step back … – Il Sole 24 Ore

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Many institutions deserts and demonstrations throughout Italy for the national strike against the reform of the “Good School “promoted by the government Renzi. To take to the streets this morning not only teachers and school workers but also many high school students and university students who have gathered in seven cities (Aosta, Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Milan, Palermo, Rome), for the processions organized in a unified manner by the five unions of school: FLC CGIL, UIL school, CISL school, Snals Confsal and Gilda. One hundred thousand, according to organizers, protesters converged in Piazza del Popolo in Rome at the end of the main march promoted by the CGIL, and half a million in all other locations in Italy. Meanwhile, the undersecretary of School David Pharaoh made it clear that despite the changes made to the commission bill, the government does not intend to take a step back on the role of the head teacher (“We have strengthened the role of yes the teachers and the school board, but the role of the principal-mayor is not in question “).

Unions: almost 80% of adherence to strike
According to the trade union membership at national general strike the school held today has touched almost 80%. Hence the “great satisfaction with this result,” but also for participating in the demonstrations that took place across the country.

Camusso and Barbagallo leading the procession in Rome
In the Capital of the main march against the bill to the attention of the House Committee on Culture, sponsored by the CGIL, started around 10 from the Republic Square in the direction of Piazza del Popolo. In head union leaders, including the leader CGIL, Susanna Camusso, the general secretary of the FLC CGIL, Domenico Pantaleo and the secretary of the UIL Carmelo Barbagallo, that the Italian school “has no need of mayor,” but to be “public , free and democratic. ” According to sources of the CGIL, the protesters gathered in Rome would be over 100 thousand. The procession Capitoline recorded even a small protest of the demonstrators to the leader of the Democratic Party Stefano Fassina. The MP was approached by some teachers who accused him of lack of opposition within the Democratic Party and invited to leave the same parade.

Camusso: with reform school that is only for the wealthy
With the reform “turns the school into a school that is only for those who have a condition well-off while the big theme is that of a public school that contrasts the dispersion,” said Camusso, on the sidelines of procession. A government “that is only able to say that we have not read the bill of reform and that we are of the squad is a government that has no argument to defend his decision,” continued the union stressing that “this is not a political strike but a strike of the school staff. ” “I think – said Camusso – that there is infinite arrogance, which is to respond to an objection by pulling straight and in the absence of arguments and ideas on how we need to change.”

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