意大利计划削减学校工作人员，原因是出生率下降，学生人数减少。2027年预算将削减教师4925人，非教学工作人员2049人。
Italy plans to cut school staff as birthrates fall and pupil numbers drop. The 2027 budget would reduce teachers by 4,925 and non-teaching staff by 2,049.
政府还希望将退休公务员的替补招聘上限设定为75%。预计在2027年至2028年期间节省3.36亿欧元。
The government also wants a 75% cap on replacing retiring public workers. It expects €336 million in savings over 2027-2028.
工会、校长和反对党已表示抗议。他们表示，削减开支削弱了教育，而自2017-2018学年以来，学生人数已从840万降至770万。
Unions, principals and opposition parties have protested. They say the cuts weaken education, while student numbers fell from 8.4 million to 7.7 million since 2017-2018.
AI生成 罗马——随着意大利出生率暴跌，课堂上的儿童数量减少，该国政府正在削减教师和清洁工，引发工会、校长和反对党的抗议。
AI generated ROME – Italy’s government is cutting back on teachers and janitors as the country’s plunging birthrate reduces the number of children in classrooms, prompting protests from unions, principals and opposition parties.
“人口下降是真实存在的，是一个非常严重的问题。但不能以此为借口，进一步削弱我们的公共教育体系，”校长协会ANP的马里奥·鲁斯科尼11月2日对《共和国报》表示。意大利教育部暂未立即回应置评请求。
“Demographic decline is real, a very serious problem. But it cannot be used as an excuse to further weaken our public education system,” Mario Rusconi from principals’ association ANP told la Repubblica daily on Nov 2. The Italian education ministry was not immediately available for comment.
内阁上周批准的2027年预算法草案规定，从2027-2028学年开始，教师编制应减少4925个单位，非教学工作人员编制应减少2049个单位。
The draft 2027 budget law, approved by the cabinet last week, says staffing levels should fall by 4,925 units for teachers and 2,049 units for non-teaching staff, starting from the 2027-2028 school year.
该草案还引入了对公共部门招聘以替换退休员工的75%上限，政府估计，这将在2027年至2028年期间节省3.36亿欧元（约合4.82亿新元）。
It also introduces a 75% cap on public sector hires to replace retiring staff, which according to government estimates should produce savings of €336 million (S$482 million) over 2027-2028.
这些措施叠加了2025年预算法中的先前削减，该法案从2025-2026学年开始将教师编制削减了5660个单位，并从2026-2027学年开始将非教学工作人员编制削减了2174个单位。
The measures add to previous cuts from the 2025 budget law, which reduced school staffing levels by 5,660 units for teachers starting from 2025-2026, and by 2,174 for non-teaching staff from 2026-2027.
学生人数下降 意大利正面临欧洲最严重的人口危机之一，对学生人口产生不可避免的影响。
Falling student numbers Italy is facing one of the worst demographic crises in Europe, with inevitable repercussions on its student population.
官方数据显示，中小学学生人数从2017-2018学年的840万降至2024-2025学年的770万。
Pupils in primary and secondary schools fell from 8.4 million in 2017-2018 to 7.7 million in 2024-2025, official data show.
“学生入学人数的下降本应是减小班级规模、提高教育质量的机会。然而，人员编制仍在削减，给本已因不稳定就业而负担沉重的体系雪上加霜，”UIL工会表示。
“The decline in student enrolment should be an opportunity to reduce class sizes and improve the quality of education. Instead, staffing levels continue to be cut, compounding the difficulties of a system already burdened by precarious employment,” the UIL trade union said.
右翼政府总理乔治亚·梅洛尼的政府在支出方面几乎没有余地，受欧盟赤字限制和飙升的能源成本制约，这些成本给增长缓慢的经济带来压力，并使10月份的通胀率达到5.6%。
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightist government has little room for extra spending, constrained by EU deficit limits and soaring energy costs which weigh on a slow-growing economy and have pushed inflation to 5.6% in October.
她的政府面临2027年的选举，同时也面临因生活成本危机引发的街头抗议，这些抗议在某些情况下已演变为暴力，部分由要求增加对学校和大学投资的学生推动。
Her government, facing an election in 2027, is also facing street protests over the cost-of-living crisis which have in some cases turned violent and have partly been animated by students demanding more investment in schools and universities.