Italian Riot Police
Last week, the Italian authorities, acting as per Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s instructions, have made major education cuts.
This law has not remained without an answer. Tens of thousands of people affected by it (teachers, students, even parents) have demonstrated against it on the streets of Italian cities like Milan, Turin, Venice, Naples and Rome.
Cutting the education budget with several billions of Euro is likely to cause the loss of almost 130,000 teaching jobs.
The organizers of the protests have said that 90% of the Italian schools have been closed and that almost one million persons marched in Rome, but there is no official statement regarding this aspect.
The new education law includes several changes of the teaching system: primary school children will have only one all-purpose teacher for five years, and they will receive grades, in order to evaluate their conduct.
The opposition is currently trying to raise the necessary number of signatures that will allow the organization of a referendum on these reforms.
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This post was written by Dana Ciucalau on November 1, 2008
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