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Paris Citizens’ Convention Backs Return to Four-Day School Week

The proposal highlights safety and staffing changes and points to a phased debate that could lead to a 2027 timetable reform.

Les parents de la convention citoyenne dédiée au périscolaire rendent leurs conclusions, en salle du Conseil de la mairie de Paris, le 23 juin 2026.
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Les écoles parisiennes vont-elles rester à la semaine de de 4 jours et demi ? La concertation sur les rythmes scolaires réunie par le maire Emmanuel Grégoire, en plein scandale de violences sexuelles dans le périscolaire, rend ses conclusions mardi

Overview

  • A citizens’ convention of 80 randomly selected parents presented its report on June 23 and recommended several options with a 77% plurality supporting a return to a four-day school week with Wednesday used for extracurricular activities.
  • Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said the city will keep working with the panel, will not implement a major timetable change for the coming school year, and raised the prospect of discussing a reform timeline for 2027.
  • The convention’s report focuses first on child protection measures after the city suspended 132 after-school workers since early 2026, including 52 for suspected sexual or sexist violence.
  • Practical limits to quick reform include chronic understaffing and precarious contracts for roughly 14,000 animateurs, union strikes demanding hundreds of hires and de‑precarisation, and the municipal government’s need to budget and phase changes.
  • Paris has kept a 4.5-day week since 2013 so any shift would reshuffle thousands of family schedules and associative timetables, and the mayor plans to present first measures for early July debate and set up a follow-up committee to monitor implementation.