Education Uri teachers submit signatures for referendum
On Tuesday in Altdorf, the Teachers' Association of the Canton of Uri (Lur) submitted over 1,000 signatures in opposition to the primary school ordinance passed by the cantonal council. A referendum requires 450 signatures. The aim of the teachers is to prevent a "two-tier education system".
30.07.2024, 15:17
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Specifically, the teachers are bothered by an optional rather than a mandatory formulation in the article on additional resources for large school classes. Sepp Wipfli, President of Lur, told Keystone-SDA at the end of May that there was a danger that the financially stronger municipalities would be able to access the resources and the municipalities that were less well off would forego them.
The teachers also accuse the canton of shirking its financial obligations with the "optional" formulation, at the expense of the schoolchildren. According to Lur, the canton would also have had to pay a third of the additional costs incurred by the municipalities in the future with a mandatory formulation. Now the municipalities would have to bear the costs alone.
With the referendum, the association wants to ensure that the cantonal council revisits the ordinance following a no vote by voters and replaces the optional wording with the mandatory wording originally proposed by the cantonal government.
The optional formulation was proposed by the SVP in the April session of the cantonal council as part of the revision of the school ordinance. A large part of the FDP and the center supported this. In the end, parliament adopted the motion by 39 votes to 18.
