Overview
- The socialist bill proposed creating a Category B state corps for AESH with competitive exams, expanded training and pay based on a full-time reference.
- Education minister Édouard Geffray opposed immediate implementation, saying AESH work on incomplete hours and the civil service lacks part-time posts.
- The right and centrist majority, supported by the government, blocked the text after cost estimates of about €4–4.3 billion and concerns over staffing rigidities.
- France counts about 145,000 AESH, yet nearly 49,000 pupils with disabilities were still waiting for support at the September intake.
- Advocates warned that maintaining the status quo could trigger further resignations and leave tens of thousands of children without assistance next school year, in a workforce marked by involuntary part-time and average pay near €850 a month.