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The Left Party presents a plan to abolish the “market school”.
The plan means, among other things, that a profit ban will be fully implemented in 2026.
The Left Party wants to put an end to for-profit limited companies that run independent schools. The party believes that they are seizing tax money that would have gone to students and teachers.
Therefore, before the next term of office, V will make a new attempt to, as they put it, regain control of the “market school”.
At a press conference during Almedalen Week in Visby, party leader Nooshi Dadgostar presents an implementation plan to achieve that goal.
The plan means, among other things, that a decision on a profit ban will be made in 2024, which will be fully implemented in 2026.
It also includes a new resource allocation model. We want the municipalities to continue to be responsible for the basic financing of the school, but for the state to take over the responsibility for ensuring that schools that accept students with weaker conditions are compensated more than today.
The model means, among other things, that today’s school fees are abolished and replaced by a class fee that is weighted based on local conditions.
We want the new model to be investigated in 2022–2023, a decision to be made in 2024 and for the entire system to be fully implemented in 2026.
A third point in the plan is that a decision to remove queuing time as a selection method for popular schools will be taken as early as 2022. Such a proposal has already been made by the current S government.
Other points in the plan are a stop law against the sale of school properties in 2022, and that a proposal on the principle of openness shall apply to all schools.
In 2022, V also wants to introduce a means-tested permit examination by the Swedish Schools Inspectorate to prevent over-establishment of independent schools.