Overview

• Geffray succeeds Élisabeth Borne in the Lecornu II government, becoming the seventh leader of the Education ministry since 2022.
• The 47-year-old senior civil servant served as Dgesco from 2019 to 2024 after roles at the CNIL, the Council of State and as the ministry’s HR chief, and he recently authored a report to update the Ma classe au cinéma program.
• He inherits a recruitment crisis for teachers, with a 2026 training overhaul slated to move the concours to the third year of licence followed by two paid master’s years with trainee civil-servant status for successful candidates.
• Recent shocks include the suicide of school director Caroline Grandjean after lesbophobic harassment and a knife attack on a teacher in Benfeld, adding urgency to safety and harassment responses.
• Operational headaches persist, with weak uptake of the collège smartphone scheme (9% implementation, 68% no plan to adopt), pending clarifications on bac continuous assessment before Toussaint, under-resourced EVARS sessions, and a pledge to audit 40% of private contracted schools by 2027.