(ANSA)- Rome, September 2 - The second phase of the Italian
state's process to create 100,000 new jobs in public schools got
underway without a hitch on Wednesday.
At 12:01 in the morning, the Education Ministry's hiring
announcement and an Internet portal for filing applications went
live.
Ministry sources reported no rush on the site or
difficulties for the server.
The hiring scheme is fruit of controversial education
reform that sparked strikes among teachers' unions earlier this
year.
"The controversy is natural, but it is right to say about
schools that there are 100,000 additional jobs," Premier Matteo
Renzi told the radio station RTL 102.5.
"It is the first time that Italy puts more money into its
own children."
"For decades, there has been the creation of temporary
employment. We have put a definitive end to this affair and
begun to hire," Renzi continued.
"Obviously, there are those who are not content because
they must move a few kilometres since they won't be hired where
they had hoped, but the law on school is only the beginning,"
said Renzi.
"One does not resolve school with a click. Then there are
problems that regard individual professors. I respect them.
Often they have been taken for a ride by the institutions,"
Renzi concluded.
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