Premier Matteo Renzi's
administration intends to hire 150,000 teachers by September
2015, according to guidelines posted on a government website
Wednesday.
His school plans also intend to make it simplier to hire
new teachers and eliminate cumbersome waiting lists that
reportedly can last for years, according the website.
It says the new plan would also cut substitute teaching.
Writing on the website, Renzi said that teachers must be
hired on their merits and not merely seniority.
"We say enough to the precarious (employment) and
substitute teaching, we must have the courage," to hire teachers
on merit, he said.
The cost of the plan is estimated at about 3 billion euros
in total, with the first phase about 1 billion euros.
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