Participants in a conference on the theme: "What strategy for civil society for the development of public school?", called, Saturday, in Salé, for the creation of a national network for the defense of public school.

At the end of this conference organized by the Associative Space in partnership with the organization "Save the Children," the participants recommended the establishment of a committee that will be responsible for determining the perceptions and organizational mechanisms of the future network.

Composed of about 40 associations operating in the field of education, this national network aims to empower civil society and define its role as a main actor in the revitalization of school life as well as to control public policies relating to the educational system.

It also aims to defend public school as an integration approach and a means of bringing together associative actors and the said system through the opening of educational institutions to their environment.

Several workshops around "associative work for the promotion of public school" were on the program of this conference, held at the Associative Solidarity Center, during which the participants focused, in particular, on "the specificities of the modern school and the challenges of education in the third millennium" as well as "the reality of the educational system in Morocco and the expectations of the actors concerned".

This meeting saw the participation of representatives of civil society as well as associations and actors in the field of education who came from the different regions of the Kingdom.