Tag: education budget

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French Left Wants Everything Free, Starting With Replacement Schools

Isla Campbell

Socialist Economics Reaches Its Logical Conclusion: Everything Is Free Until Somebody Asks Who’s Paying PARIS, FRANCE | France’s education crisis has revived an old argument: if public services are free, why does everything that provides them cost so much? The question is urgent now that the government faces decaying schools, teacher shortages, public debt and damage from student unrest. The unrest has also complicated preparations for the 2027 budget, with…

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France Has No Money for Teachers, Plenty for Riot Police

Cyndi Himmelstiere

New National Curriculum Replaces Algebra With Police Statistics and Economics With the Cost of Tear Gas PARIS, FRANCE | France’s government struggles to staff ordinary lessons but can find substantial police resources when students protest the shortage. More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide on one Tuesday, according to government figures cited by the Associated Press, and classes were totally or partly suspended at 891 schools that…