The Government wants to continue and intensify its efforts for the districts with the objective of 200 educational estates by 2022

The Interministerial Cities Committee, which met on January 29 in Grigny, reflects the Government's determined desire to continue and intensify the efforts made towards neighborhoods and their inhabitants, from an early age.

The Prime Minister announced the acceleration of the deployment of educational cities and set the objective of achieving the labeling of 200 educational cities by 2022.

A partnership approach at the scale of a territory, the educational city relies on an alliance of all stakeholders to offer students in priority neighborhoods a framework for learning and enhanced development, from childhood to to professional integration.

Parents, children, elected officials, teachers, associative actors: all are mobilizing to make the child, the pupil, the individual and no longer the territory a priority.

The educational cities approach will be extended from 2021. Thus, after the 80 labeled educational cities in 2019, 46 new sites spread over 24 academies and 37 departments have been selected.

These 126 educational estates will benefit more than 700 children and young people aged 000 to 0, ie a third of the young people living in the districts concerned.

Educational housing estates represent an unprecedented investment by the State of € 230 million over the period 2019-2022.

Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports:

“The School of the Republic is the first lever for reducing inequalities of destiny. Through the duplication of classes, educational estates or even the ropes of success, we want to give the same opportunities to all students, throughout the territory ”.

Nadia Hai, Minister Delegate in charge of the City:

“Educational cities are first and foremost a new approach that places the child at the center of collective action. All stakeholders - National Education, State services, associations, families, etc. are mobilized to support them, from the age of 3 to 25, so as not to leave any child without a suitable solution . The educational cities are a chance for the youth of our neighborhoods to better fight against the school and digital divide and find the desire to succeed. "

Nathalie Elimas, Secretary of State in charge of Priority Education:

“Educational housing estates allow all the educational players in a given area to sit at the same table, around a project focused on supporting children in and outside school time. It is an essential device in the framework of our policy in favor of equal opportunities. "