Overview
- Forza Italia’s Claudio Lotito and Noi Moderati’s Mariastella Gelmini tabled amendments offering €1,500 per child to families with ISEE under €30,000 who enroll in paritarie.
- The proposals are part of the budget package under discussion in Parliament and have not been approved.
- The measure is estimated to cost about €20 million, with coverage noting the separate paritarie fund has been lifted to roughly €750 million a year.
- Opposition figures, including Peppe De Cristofaro and Barbara Floridia, argue the plan violates Article 33 of the Constitution and diverts money from public schools.
- Critics press for action on textbook costs, staffing precarity, overcrowded classes, and limited full-time schooling rather than new aid for private institutions.