Online call launched for school jobs

(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.