Nîmes Candidate Rouverand Pledges Education Focus, Targets Early Childhood & Dropout Rates
Nîmes, France – Valérie Rouverand, a candidate in teh upcoming municipal elections in Nîmes, has announced education as her management’s top priority, outlining a comprehensive plan focused on early childhood development and addressing school dropout rates. Rouverand’s “Innu projects” initiative centers on ensuring every child in Nîmes has the opportunity to succeed, irrespective of socioeconomic background.
Rouverand, who previously served as a municipal elected representative from 2014 to 2020 with responsibility for related delegations, emphasized existing challenges, citing the premature end to the school year last June due to overheated classrooms and the meaningful demands placed on the city’s nearly 900 municipal staff and teachers. “Many has already been undertaken, but the sites are still numerous and often structural,” she stated. “No child must give up his dreams because born on the bad side of the city and life.”
The plan relies on the expertise of two key collaborators: Laure Alteirac, a territorial civil servant coordinating early childhood policies across seven Vaunage municipalities, and Laurence remaud, a regional academic inspector for colleges and high schools. Alteirac will focus on expanding access to early childhood care, noting that Nîmes currently provides coverage for only 40% of children, compared to a national average of 60%. Her goal is to support the ”first 1000 days” of a child’s life, ensuring they enter school prepared with strong foundations in sleep, language, nutrition, play, and citizenship. A participatory family diagnosis and a unified childhood portal - encompassing web, print, and telephone resources - are also planned.
Remaud will concentrate on equality of opportunity, secularism, and citizenship, aiming to provide a fulfilling educational path from early childhood thru professional integration. The initiative will strengthen cooperation with the prefecture,associations,national education,health services,and universities. Addressing the identified 750 school dropouts in Nîmes is a key component, alongside a focus on mental health support and the creation of a parents’ council. Remaud also proposes increasing the city’s financial contribution to the educational city program from 10% to 30%, reinforcing the belief that “Young people are the citizens of tomorrow.”
