2011 Decision 23th

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EXCERPT

Minutes of the 5/2011 meeting of the Regional Council
Eastern Macedonia Thrace

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Decision No. 23 / 2011
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SUMMARY: Mergers - Establishments of Primary and Secondary Education School Units for the school year 2011 -2012.

 

In Komotini today, February 23, 2011 , Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. , in the conference room of the Regional Unit of Rodopi, in the presence of the Regional Governor Aristides Giannakides, the Deputy Regional Governors: Xanthopoulos Ioannis of Drama, Nikolaou-Mavranezoulis Georgia of Evros, Granas Archelaos of Kavala, Karalidis Fotios of Xanthi and Damianidis Pavlos of Kavala. Rodopi, who were legally summoned in accordance with article 167 par. 4 of Law 3852/2010, the Regional Council of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace convened in a public regular session following the 246/15-2-2011 written invitation of its President, which was served on each Regional Councilor, in accordance with article 167 par. 2 of Law 3852/2010.

 

PRESENT:                                                           

   Michaelides Konstantinos, President

Markopoulos Theodoros, Vice President

Zagnaferis Konstantinos, Secretary

 

The members

1. Hussein Erca	25.Coukouvela Hyacinth
2. Salim Sevgi	26. Matziaris Antonios
3.Nikolaidis Ioannis	27.Tsoulou -Tsagalidou Wire Mesh
4.Ustoglou Georgios 5.Moomin Kaan	28.Serefia Sultana 29.Papadopoulos Stylianos
6. Tellidis Ioannis 7.Vavias Stavros   8. Pournara Marika	30.Father Nicholas       31.Pavlidis Georgios             32. Karavas Konstantinos
9.Christodoulides George 10.Tsaldaridis Anastasios	33.Petrovich Dimitrios 34.Michelis Konstantinos
11.Saltouros Dimitrios                   12.Chaitidis Dimitrios	35. Galazoulas Christos   36.Hadji Memis Turkes
13. Geromarkos George       14.Siakir Ayhan	37. Stavros Kavaratzis 38.Baran Burhan
15.Kefalidou Androniki 16. Papathanakis Stavros	39.Patakakis Anargyros 40. Papadopoulos Kimon
17.Uzun Irfan         18.Papakosmas Konstantinos.	41.Moysidis Panagiotis                         42.Zisimou George Pavlos
19. Carpenter Georgia	43. Arapatzis Athanasios
20. Papadopoulos Chrysostomos	44.Trellis Christos
21. Cholak Swat                                                              22. Gougouskidou Maria   23. Kanelakis Ioannis     24.Zimpidis Georgios	45.Charitou Dimitrios   46. Makris Athanasios

 

ANSWERS:

Balikas Andreas and Potolias X ristos.

 They were absent even though they were legally summoned.

 

 

   The duties of the official secretary were performed by the employee of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, Ms. Katsikoudi Eleni.

 

 After a quorum was established because out of a total of 51 members, 49 members were present, the discussion of the items on the agenda began.

 

   Introducing the second item on the agenda, the Director of the Regional Directorate of Education and Training of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Kelesidis Georgios brought to the attention of the members of the Regional Council of the Region of Eastern Macedonia the following:

 

   The Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, within the framework of planning the operation of primary and secondary education school units, is initiating changes from the 2011-2012 school year with the aim of qualitatively upgrading the education provided, utilizing the infrastructure for the implementation of innovative teaching methods for all students in the territory and facilitating teachers in the provision of quality educational services.

 

   Based on the current institutional framework and in particular the provisions of articles 4 and 8 of Law 1566/1985, as well as article 11 par. 2 of Law 1966/1991 (Government Gazette 147 A), as well as the relevant Ministerial Decisions (Φ.3/897/97652/Γ1/13.10.2006, Φ.3/898/97657/Γ1 (Government Gazette 1507/13-10-2006), ΥΑ68419/Γ2/6.7.2006 (Government Gazette 984 B')) and in order to formulate and submit proposals that will represent the real needs of each region, with their geographical conditions and particularities, especially given that the building infrastructure, maintenance, operating expenses of schools and student transportation now fall under the responsibility of the new Municipalities, it is necessary to formulate the conditions for cooperation between service agents with teachers, other bodies and local authorities.

 

   In order to formulate the proposals and create the School Charter of each Region, the following must be observed:

 

• The criteria for merging are the building infrastructure-facilities, as well as the possibilities for developing classrooms, a library and other auxiliary spaces and equipment in the transfer school. In any case, the regulations for the maximum number of students (up to 25 for primary and up to 30 for secondary) are respected.

 

   In addition, the kilometer distance for the new school is estimated, taking into account the transport coverage of the area, the road network, the prevailing weather conditions and the duration of the route to reach the new school, which for difficult and inaccessible areas cannot exceed half an hour for primary schools and . of an hour for secondary schools.

 

   The opinion of the representatives of the new Municipalities will contribute to the formation of the final proposal.

 

   Particularly for mountainous and small island areas, where distances, transportation and weather conditions do not ensure the conditions for safe transportation of students, each case will be examined with due attention and will be included, as an exception, in the organizational structure of a small school unit, based on the specificities, always respecting pedagogical criteria, and until conditions are created with the construction of municipal works.

 

• School Units that merge form a single school unit without branches or Lyceum classes.

 

• In the event of the abolition of one or more school units, if circumstances dictate, a new school unit is established in an area where the largest number of students is concentrated.

 

• Primary or secondary education school units that operate in a single space as separate school units of the same level are consolidated into one school unit, in compliance with the above criteria and conditions of the above applicable institutional framework (e.g. organicity limit for primary education is a 12-place primary school).

 

Basic parameters that should be taken into account are:

 

• Correspondence between the organization and functionality of the school units in relation to the student population and the potential for development and operation of each school unit.

 

• The evolution of the student population over the last 5 years, the rate of increase or decrease and the expected number of students by 2013.

 

• The enrollment of students in the first grade of each type of school (Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary, etc.), also taking into account the attendance of siblings in corresponding schools.

 

The above also applies to cases of establishment, promotion or relegation of School Units.

 

   The formulation of proposals at this stage is a crucial issue for the creation of the territory's School Charter and the administrative reorganization of education in the country's development effort.

 

   The provisions of article 7 of Law 3848/2010 have already established the necessity of recording all operational parameters, relating to the number of departments, students, educational directions or other units of each school, within the first two months of each year in order to determine any gaps that may arise.

 

   For this purpose, the Ministry has completed the design of the computer system, which includes fields for the registration of the analytical data of the operation of schools, whether it concerns their infrastructure, or the educational or student population, with the potential for development of other fields, in order to gather the necessary information for the documented planning of the educational policy. Among the fields included in this system are those concerning the proposals for the necessary changes of school units, in relation to the student population and the operating conditions of each school unit.

 

   In the computerized system, separate entry fields have been designed for each form of change (establishment, promotion, etc.). For each field, a corresponding field will be completed to justify the proposal based on the pedagogical benefits for the students and for each type of school (Kindergarten, Primary School, Middle School, General High School, Vocational High School,

 

Vocational School).

 

After a dialogical discussion

 

                            The Regional Council of the Region

 

                                     Eastern Macedonia Thrace

 

   He expressed his opposition by majority to mergers or abolitions of schools in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace without the consent of the local communities, the relevant municipalities and the educational community, while requesting that the relevant process proceed without any faits accomplis so that the final proposal for the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace can be put to the judgment of the members of the council.

 

 

 

This decision was given number 23/2011.

 

THE PRESIDENT OF
REGIONAL COUNCIL
EASTERN MACEDONIA THRACE

Konstantinos Michaelidis 

 

 

HIS SECRETARY
REGIONAL COUNCIL
EASTERN MACEDONIA THRACE

Konstantinos Zagnaferis

 

 THE MEMBERS

Hussein Ercan  

Salim Sevgi                                                  

Nikolaidis Ioannis                                         

Ustoglou Georgios                                       

Mumin Kaan                                                   

Tellidis Ioannis                                              

Vavias Stavros                                               

Pournara Marika                                           

Christodoulides George                                

Tsaldaridis Anastasios                              

Saltouros Dimitrios                                   

Chaitidis Dimitrios                          

Geromarkos Georgios                                   

Siakir Ayhan                                                

Kefalidou Androniki                                   

Papathanakis Stavros                        

Uzun Irfan                                              

Papakosmas Konstantinos                          

Carpenter Georgia                       

Papadopoulos Chrysostomos                

Cholak Swat                                               

Gougouskidou Maria                                 

Kanelakis Ioannis                                      

Zimbidis Georgios                                         

Owl Hyacinth    

Matziaris Antonios

Tsoulou – Tsagkalidou Wire

Sherefia Sultana

Papadopoulos Stylianos

Father Nikolaos

Pavlidis Georgios

Karavas Konstantinos

Petrovic Dimitrios

 Balikas Andreas(absent)     

Michelis Konstantinos

Galazoulas Christos

Hadji Memis Turkes

Stavros Kavaratzis

Baran Burhan

Patakakis Anargyros

Markopoulos Theodoros

Papadopoulos Kimon

Moysidis Panagiotis

Zisimou George – Pavlos

Aramatzis Athanasios

Trellis Christos

Potolias Christos(absent)     

Charitou Dimitrios                                          

Makris Athanasios

 

 

ACCURATE QUOTE
THE HEADMASTER
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COLLECTIVE BODIES

 

ELENI KATSIKOUDI