Some students will pay 700 euros to take music lessons in schools – Digital Journal

1st cycle Students who want to take music lessons initiation may have to pay 700 euros per year, more than last year, and double the amount reimbursed by the Ministry of Education.

This is one of the rules of the ordinance that defines the state financial support to specialized art schools of music, dance, visual and audiovisual arts of the private and cooperative schools.

The law says that the Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) will finance the curricular offerings of specialized art education in integrated and coordinated systems and comparticipar initiation courses and supplementary regime.

So, the students of the 1st cycle to decide have a first contact with a musical instrument or take dance lessons may have to pay part of this course offer, which was the case before.

In the dance the introductory courses, schools may ask parents and guardians 350 euros per year, which is an amount equal to the assigned by MEC

In the case of music, the values ​​vary depending on the size of the groups:. students may have to pay 350 euros if the instrument of discipline is frequented by three or four students, or 700 euro, when they are groups of one or two students

Compared to previous years, the big difference is precisely the smaller classes of introduction to music:. ​​In the year past, for example, the families and the MEC paid the same amount (550 euros), while the MEC will now pay 350 euros and families will receive an invoice for 700 euros, he told Lusa ministry source.

“In the courses of school teaching music, in a supplementary scheme may be required of students of educational institutions, financial contribution in respect of the value of public funding plus up to 20% for basic education courses “reads the notice published Wednesday in the Official Gazette.

It remains the exemption of payment for students attending art schools full time (integrated education) and those who attend regular school and then take music lessons or dance in those schools (articulated education). In these cases, the ministry funded the entire curriculum offer.

The ordinance sets new funding amounts per student depending on the grade level and frequency regime, which ranges from 350 euros, for the initiated, up to 5,440 euros in the case of secondary courses Music articulated regime.

For the representatives of teachers and art schools, these figures are very low and might result in the emergence of more precarious contracts and false invoices Green warned Rui Paiva, the claiming movement of Artistic Education.

Another change, applauded by representatives of art schools, was a uniform funding model, which happens to be identical in all regions of the country and is replaced as the sole source of financing the state budget.

To receive financial aid, interested parties will have to apply for sponsorship contracts, who now have a period of three school years.

“The multi-year contracts was one of our main demands, along with move to be financed through the state budget and establish themselves dates to be made the payments,” he told Lusa Rui Paiva.

It will also set up a commission to analyze the educational documents of schools, the characteristics of faculty, academic performance, the operating conditions of schools and the development of training offer.

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