Overview
- The education minister said controls in private schools under state contract will reach 40% by 2027.
- France has about 7,500 contracted private establishments, most of them Catholic.
- The acceleration follows the Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram scandal, which led to 132 complaints over alleged violence.
- The measures stem from the plan unveiled in March by former minister Élisabeth Borne to combat school violence.
- Édouard Geffray acknowledged schooling some of his children in both sectors and emphasized that curricula and protections are the same in public and contracted private schools.