Strasbourg
"School reform on a local level - parents and teachers of Strasbourg collaborate on solutions"
Objectives
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Understand the organisational needs of families and determine how the city can help
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Identify the best school model for children from preschool onwards
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Decide what activities should be offered in schools outside the classroom
Impact
Following the consultations, the city of Strasbourg decided to implement key structural changes:​
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Daily lessons of 3.5 hours length held each morning
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Free educational activities for primary school children on Wednesday afternoons
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Free Kindergarten offer on Wednesday afternoons for young children to better support working parent
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The new school year starting at the end of August
Success Metrics
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Number of contributions. 2175 contributions from all participants (including 1500 from parents)
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Involvement of parents: 5873 parents and 69 associations consulted
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Involvement of teachers: 920 teachers participated, equivalent of around 50% of teachers and directors working in Strasbourg's public schools
+2K
contributions by 14 471 unique visitors
50%
of Strasbourg’s teachers were consulted
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major structural changes to the school rhythm in Strasbourg
Most popular ideas
Civocracy recommendations
Link online and offline methods in a more coherent way, e.g. by posting all events in the project calendar on the Civocracy platform.
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Increase transparency through the publishing of regular updates as well as results of surveys, studies and offline meetings on the project page.
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Be more responsive to citizens' contributions by responding to them and recognising the citizens’ effort through 'constructive contributions' badges.
01.
161 votes
"Reduce the number of children per class"
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141 votes
"Give preference to the 4-day week"
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124 votes
"More training for teachers and professionals"
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24 votes
"Offer meals cooked on site or at least with more organic ingredients and less plastic"