The Liberals lost so much to change school – now everything is set

When the time is presented, it was clear that the Liberals had won a single negotiation victory: school reforms. But the longer it goes, the clearer it becomes that the profit is mainly on the paper.

The major battle issues – the profits, queues and school money – are at best buried in investigations. In the worst case – as in the case of introducing a compulsory school choice – not even an investigation has been appointed (Ekot 31/3).

Time reasons, says School Minister Lotta Edholm (L) as a cause. Other investigations have been more important, according to the Swedish Democrats.

Regardless, a joint school choice, where all parents and students fill in their wishes at the same time before school starts, will not become a reality during the term of office. This despite the fact that both the one and abandoned queues were proposed in the spring of 2020, in The investigation of a more equal school.

The inertia is a betrayal.

It is just as bad about the school money.

Partly against the taxpayers, as we get more knowledge development for each invested krona in mixed classes than if the school selection system blocks segregation. Partly against the weakest students from study -habitual homes, who are disadvantaged when « systemsmarta » is favored, and for which the education system has a compensatory assignment for.

It is as bad Around the school money. Several investigations have found that today’s financing model does not lead to the best possible results and that the free schools are overcompensated financially. 2022 wrote The OAG Even « the regulations in some respects counteract an equivalent school and therefore need to be changed ».

The situation is thus as clear as acute. But so far shines the investigation into a new resource distribution systemwhich would have been presented on April 1, with its absence.

Therefore, no change will be made before the next election, which is likely to also apply to new rules regarding ownership testing and distribution of profits. There one will investigation come up with suggestions, which make it impossible for unsuitable principals to drive schools and make a profit by thumbing on quality. Parts of it shall according to SVT Presented this week, while the rest comes at the end of the year, when it is less than a year left for the parliamentary elections in 2026.

All in all, thus sees The Liberals’ time at the Ministry of Education does not end up with the necessary breakthrough even on issues where they have the majority of voters in the back.

That was probably not what they were promised at Tidö Castle.

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