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(Title) More than 3,300 child labor – people’s families were left out of kindergarten by the City of Athens. This is apparent from official data of the Municipal Vrefokomeiou presented yesterday at a press conference the Mayor Kaklamanis and the President of the Foundation Valsamakis Hera.
So, according to them: in school year 2009 – 2010 received 8479 applications from approved and 5401 for school year 2010-2011 were approved in 8816 and 5465. This year, filed about 400 more applications from parents. This number is expected to grow even more. This is because the municipality estimates that September will be further requests from families to put their children in elementary kindergarten, since the popular income has dropped drastically and even parents who send their children last year in a private station, year can not …
worth noting that this situation occurs at a time when the municipality decided to close eight kindergartens, for various reasons. This means that greater numbers of children will be less nurseries, which will impact on conditions and care of thousands of children, infants and toddlers.
In an interview yesterday, the chairman of the Municipal Vrefokomeiou Her Valsamakis, highlighted the enormous responsibilities of the state regarding the issue of municipal preschool education because, as he never was the interest and similar public facilities. “Over time, he stressed – which of course is quite true – the state is not interested as they were for kindergarten. However, beside the enormous responsibility of governments diachroniki PASOK and New Democracy for the above situation, its responsibility is over time the party that governs the administration and the municipality, since they tried and did not solve this important problem for the building or whether workers .
immediate problem to ensure the proper functioning of the municipal kindergartens, than those developed in the interview, highlighted the issue of workers. Law Ragousis recruitment in the public and broader public sector, sending unemployment to contractors already working. Please note that the majority of the current contract, judgments, has secured her stay at work until January 2011. But it remains unknown what will happen after January. Also, as mentioned, 100 people from the staff of kindergartens have resigned, and the contest through ASEP City of Athens to recruit permanent staff 278 people, can not be completed because of the recruitment ban in public.
Nor should not forget that the application of “Kallikrates, the in January 2011, the problems facing the municipal kindergartens will worsen.
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27-7-2010
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