Estela Silva / Lusa
Displaced teachers who are placed in schools located in areas with a lack of teachers will receive support for travel with a majoration between 15 and 50 euros, depending on the distance.
The government’s proposal was presented this Monday to the unions representing the teachers, in a meeting at the facilities of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation (MECI) in Caparide, Cascais, and the introduction of a MAJORATION IS THE MAIN NEW.
Last week, the Prime Minister, Luís Montenegrohad already announced, from the beginning of the school year, to all teachers placed in schools more than 70 km of your tax residence.
Custom anticipate the entry into force of a compensation regime approved in March in the Assembly of the Republic, with the votes against the PSD and CDS-PP, which changed the regime created by the government Last September and which was intended only for teachers placed in a school considered needy for lacking teachers.
The extension of the support, however, Only predicted the entry into force With the state budget to 2026, that is, from January.
According to MECI, in the past school year 2,807 teachers placed in the 234 needy schools benefited support for travel.
From September, the guardianship estimates that they will be More than 8,000 teachersin an investment of about 25 million eurossays the minister’s office Fernando Alexandre in a statement.
For the generality of teachers beneficiaries, the values remain unchanged: 150 euros for those between 70 and 200 kilometers of home, 300 euros for teachers who are between 200 and 300 kilometers and 450 euros For those who teach more than 300 kilometers from the residence.
However, and Contrary to what the diploma provided approved by Parliament in March, The government now introduces a majority for teachers who are teaching in schools inserted in the geographical areas of pedagogical paintings considered deficient.
In these cases, Teachers will receive 15 to 50 eurosdepending on the distance: 165 euros monthly if it is less than 200 kilometers, 335 euros between 200 and 300 kilometers and 450 euros if the distance is over 300 kilometers.
The Assembly of the Republic I had already approved in March – Interestingly with the Votes against PSD and CDS-PP – An extended compensation regime to all displaced teachers, regardless of whether or not they are placed in a school considered needy for lacking teachers, as provided for the measure created by the government at the beginning of that school year.
Thus, writes Meci, the government preserves “coherence of this public policy Contrary to what was approved in Parliament, which does not provide for any additional incentive regarding the country’s areas with greater lack of teachers. ”
Published on the Northern Teacher Union website after the meeting with the government, the National Teachers Federation “recorded that these proposals are shyly approaching those presented by FenProf, but that they are insufficient and intended to address only conjunctural measures“.
O Background Problem – Lack of teachers – “It continues to be neglected by protection by not resuming and accelerating the process of revision of the teaching career statute, the only way to value the profession and teaching career and recover those who have abandoned it in recent years,” noticed Francisco GonçalvesSecretary General of the Federation.
