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Reduction of staff in music schools. How to carry out the reduction of teaching staff

The Moscow Department of Culture has begun reorganizing children's music and art schools. The main vector is consolidation, consolidation and, as a result, reduction of administrative expenses. In some districts of Moscow, only one art school will remain. So, the Andreev Children's Music School, the Golovanov Children's Music School, the Flier Children's Music School and the Nadezhda Children's Art School by August 31, 2015 should merge into the Shchukino Moscow City United Children's Art School.

The main vector is consolidation, consolidation and, as a result, reduction of administrative expenses. In some districts of Moscow, only one art school will remain.

The process is aimed at strengthening the administrative and financial activities of schools and will not affect the number of teaching staff or students, Izvestia was assured in the department.

According to Vyacheslav Gorlinsky, director of the Flier Children's Music School, the reorganization will lead to staff reductions in each school.

All finances will be concentrated in one center, at CEO who will be able to dispose of them and more effectively use the various structures that he himself will create. They will serve all four schools on the principle of a dispatch service. One professional team will serve the schools both in the economic and in the engineering part. Of course, the staff of each school will be reduced, because now everyone has their own accounting department, their own business manager, their own small technical service, - explained the director of the music school.

According to him, in the 1970s and 1980s, a similar system already existed: all music schools were subordinate to the main department of culture and centralized accounting. The current merger will make it possible to raise the material and economic level of “lagging behind” schools, in particular, to introduce innovative technologies, considers Gorlinsky.

According to him, four schools have already started creative association: for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, they are preparing a theatrical musical and literary composition "Memory" based on poems by Robert Rozhdestvensky.

The performance will involve 240 children from all schools. This is a big and quite interesting work. Three performances are planned: at the Prokofiev School in the center, then at the Salyut cultural center and on the square in front of the Kaleidoscope shopping mall on May 9. This will be the real embodiment of our association, - Gorlinsky explained.

However, not all teams agree with the reorganization. Teachers of the Andreev Children's Music School protested against the dismissal of the school director, Honored Worker of Culture Tatyana Simonova. 260 teachers and parents sent an appeal to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with a request to allow the director to continue working in his previous position.

The team writes that the sudden dismissal of the director was carried out in a disrespectful manner and caused shock among students and staff. In protest, both head teachers of the school wrote letters of resignation. The teachers planned a rally, which eventually turned into a production meeting with the Department of Culture.

Tatyana Simonova's colleague Vyacheslav Gorlinsky reacted to the protests in a philosophical manner.

If the team likes the director, people have the right to speak out about it. And to dismiss or not to dismiss the director is the right of the Department of Culture. We do not know the reason why this was done, - says the director of the Flier Children's Music School.

The department of culture explained to Izvestia that the reason for the change of director was the long sick leave of Tatyana Simonova.

Behind last years Tatyana Simonova underwent several operations and most time was on sick leave(133 days in 2014), which greatly complicates the process of managing the school. At present, Tatyana Kislukhina has been appointed director of the Andreev Children's Music School, who worked at the school for 3 years as the head of the department of stringed folk instruments, for one year as deputy director, and for the last 5 years she headed the Nadezhda School of Arts, which under her leadership has become one of the best Moscow art schools, - said the department.

Kislukhina herself told Izvestia that in December and January she was already acting. school principal while Tatyana Simonova was on sick leave.

We all have such a clause in the employment contract: the founder has the right to dismiss the director at any time. We all knew about it, because we put our signature under employment contract- said Tatiana Kisluhina. - In the near future, we must create a charter for a new unified school, draw up a staffing table, register a new legal entity in tax authorities. Schools, as they worked in the mode of the educational process, will continue to be so. We have received the state task for 2015.

The name of the new general director of the combined school has not yet been announced. As Izvestia was told at the Golovanov Children's Music School, it is possible that Tatyana Kisluhina will become it.

Mikhail Khokhlov, director of the Gnessin Moscow Special Music School, considers the association "extremely useful." According to him, it will allow each of the schools to reduce the cost of specialists, which the school does not need every day, and, therefore, save part of the city budget. Also, music schools will be able to use each other's privileges free of charge, for example, rent concert halls for free. The most important thing is not to lose the contingent of students.

There is only one minus of the reorganization - the dismissal of some school leaders. As a result, the person - the manager of the budget loses control levers. This can lead to opposition both to this particular reform and to reforms in general. But there are still more pluses, - Mikhail Khokhlov is sure.

Unlike her colleague, pianist and presidential confidant Yekaterina Mechetina, the schools are unlikely to benefit from the reorganization.

I do not know a single person who would be in favor of such a union. The teachers tried to protest even at the stage of discussing the initiative, but now, apparently, it is too late. Even if formally the size of the administration is reduced, in practice there will only be more bureaucracy and running around. In addition, each school has its own face, and the risk that it will suffer is very high, - Mechetina noted.

As a result of the reform, it is planned to create three joint art schools in the SZAO of Moscow: Shchukino, Tushino (the Oborin Children's Music School, the Dokshitser Children's Music School and the Maykapar Children's Music School) and the Stravinsky Children's Art School (with the addition of the Children's Music School in Kurkino).

In total, there are now 122 children's music schools and children's art schools in Moscow.

Since 2012, there has been an optimization of educational institutions, both preschool and school type. The optimization of schools consists in their merger, and subsequent separation elementary school from middle and high. What happens to the reorganized school?

concept

Reorganization is the termination of one form of business ownership and the creation of a new one, which entails the emergence of succession relations.
An educational institution is an institution that carries out the learning process, and is also responsible for organizing this process. As part of its activities, it implements one or more educational programs.

Legislation

Any school is a legal entity, so the reorganization process is carried out on the basis of
But, since it is still educational institution, then it is worth relying on the norms

To make a decision on the reorganization of the school have the right:

as authorities at the federal level;
as well as at the regional level.

For what purpose is

Schools are being reorganized to optimize the learning process for children.
In addition, officials say the main goal of the merger of schools is to reduce the cost of maintaining incomplete schools, as well as to improve the network of state educational institutions.

This usually results in reduced efficiency. educational process and a decrease in the quality of education in a particular school.

main feature

The peculiarity of the reorganization of the school is that subsequently the effectiveness of the decision to reorganize is evaluated.

Checking in progress:

providing children with school supplies;
organization of the educational process, as well as leisure of schoolchildren;
catering;
the effectiveness of medical care;
organization of social protection and social service schoolchildren.

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Forms

Like any legal entity, the school can be reorganized in the following forms:

Merger is the union of several operating enterprises in one. At the same time, those legal entities that merge cease to exist, but form a new enterprise;
Merger scheme: A + B = C, while A and B stop their activities, and C starts.
affiliation - one enterprise merges into another, and at the same time ceases to exist;
Scheme: A + B = A, while b ceases to operate, and A continues, retaining the same TIN.
separation - on the basis of one legal entity that ceases to exist, new firms are formed;
Scheme: A / 3 = B1, B2 and B3, while A - ceases to operate.
by separation - the formation of a new legal entity. At the same time, the old enterprise continues to exist and conduct economic activities;
Scheme: - A - B = A and B, while A does not stop its activities.
transformation - one enterprise ceases to operate, and on its basis, as a rule, one enterprise arises, less often - several, with a different form of ownership.
Scheme: A => B, while A stops its activity.

Order

The reorganization of the school, like any legal entity, is carried out according to a single scheme, but taking into account some features.

The step-by-step instructions for reorganizing a school by joining are as follows:

making a decision on the reorganization.
It is accepted either by the founder or by an authorized state body. Also, reorganization can be carried out by a court decision;
on the basis of the decision taken, a Resolution is issued at the level of authority at which the decision was made to carry out the reorganization in this educational institution;
it is necessary to resolve the issue with the staff;
There are two ways - either downsizing or changing the terms of the employment contract. In both cases, all employees of both institutions must be notified for 2 months before upcoming changes. Example
Bye personnel service resolves the issue with employees, the accounting department is engaged in the creation of a separation balance sheet, on the basis of which a deed of transfer will be drawn up;
make an official notification through the media with help journal "Bulletin of state registration" ;
it is necessary to send a notice of reorganization to each creditor and debtor;
This is necessary to pay off debts and collect receivables. And although the school is government agency, it also has both creditors and debtors.
when all documents are ready, they must be submitted to the tax office;
then register a new educational institution (or institutions), if the reorganization involves their creation.

Decision

The decision to reorganize the school is made:

or its founder;
or an authorized state body.

This body also approves the initial arrangements for the reorganization. They depend on the form in which the reorganization will take place.

Decree

On the basis of the decision taken, a legal act is issued - a Resolution at the level of power that made the decision to reorganize a particular educational institution.

This document contains the following information:

details of the decision;
full and abbreviated name of the educational institution being reorganized;
form of reorganization;
appointment responsible person or a responsible body on behalf of the founder or an authorized state body;
order to carry out relevant activities;
order to draw up deed of transfer preparation of necessary documents.

If a new educational institution is created during the reorganization (merger, division, separation or transformation), then the following information must also be indicated in the resolution:

type, type and full name of the newly created educational institution;
the executive authority in whose jurisdiction the new educational institution will be located;
formation of property of a newly created educational institution.

Notification

It is necessary to properly resolve the issue with the staff of the reorganized school.

Depending on the form of future changes, they are “threatened” with either layoffs or changes in the terms of the employment contract.

In any case, all personnel must be notified no later than 2 months prior to the commencement of all reorganization activities.

The notice must be in writing and sent to each employee personally. In addition, the employee must sign the notice.

The founder of the school himself should order such an examination, and it is carried out according to the standards that are established by the authorities of the subject independently.

The composition of the commission, which conducts the assessment of the consequences, includes:

heads and specialists of local education authorities;
managers, economists and lawyers of local authorities;
representatives of the local government;
representative of the institution that was reorganized.

Based on the results of the examination, the members of the commission issue their opinion, which contains the following information:

justification for the need for reorganization.
a direct indication of how the right of students to receive free secondary education will be implemented;
the option of employing workers if there is a reduction in staff or mass layoffs;
predicted consequences of the decision to reorganize. What is the future of the school?

Workers' rights

When reorganizing the school, the rights of all employees must be observed in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. If there is a reduction, then all payments must be made, if there is a change in the terms of the employment contract, then they must be no worse than in the previous one.

That is, if there is a change in salaries, then it is impossible to allow the salary at the new place of work to be lower than at the previous one, while maintaining the same amount of work.

Otherwise, audits and litigation cannot be avoided.

An employee has the right to refuse to work for a new boss. This is his right! This is stated in

Advantages and disadvantages

School reorganization has its pros and cons. However, there are more cons than pros.

The disadvantages include:

in the classroom becomes more 25 people, or even 30 ;
the educational process suffers;
some schools are moving to a "lower" level of education;
For example, united general education school and a school that has the status of a "gymnasium". Those children who studied at the "gymnasium" lost in education, as the new school was transferred to the general education level.
often, it becomes more difficult for students to get to school and further;
This is especially true for the reorganization of rural ungraded schools. When, For example, unite several rural schools for a complete set of classes and teaching staff. Children often have to travel several kilometers to other villages.
reduction of teaching staff;
retraining of teachers. For example, the union of sports and ordinary schools;
an increase in the pedagogical load on teachers with the same salary.

The only pluses can be attributed to the fact that children's preschool institutions - kindergartens - are being restored in the vacated places.

The teacher must know the legal aspects personnel policy. Article two*

We continue a series of publications introducing teachers to different sides labor relations at school. The moderator is Anna Vavilova, Ph.D.

- The administration called several teachers and told them: we are starting to lay off staff at our school, write letters of resignation “by own will". The teachers thought, decided that there was nothing to be done, and - they wrote ...
- Such a requirement of the administration is absolutely illegal. She has no right to force teachers to write such a statement. Moreover, if the employee succumbs to pressure and writes a letter of resignation of his own free will, and he manages to prove in court that he was forced to do it by force, he can be reinstated. Such cases in judicial practice there is.
What evidence in this case can the teacher present to the court? For example, testimonials. Has anyone heard the talk about being fired? Did the employer offer him to quit on his own initiative in the presence of specific third parties? Can these persons confirm that the worker was pressured or threatened? Once I encountered a very strange situation when an employer in writing demanded that the employee write a letter of resignation "of his own free will." In the resolution on the application, he indicated that only in this case the employee would be paid the calculation. The employee took the application with the resolution to the court.
However, it is rather difficult to make predictions regarding a specific litigation. For example, a teacher will come to court and say: I was forced to quit of my own free will, and the employer, summoned to court, will object - nothing like that, he wrote the application himself. We do not have any evidence that would be binding on the court. We need evidence.
The teacher will have much more chances to prove his case in court if one of the third parties agrees to come to court and confirm that pressure was put on the teacher. However, experience shows that even if the demand to quit voluntarily was heard by the entire labor collective people don't want to testify in court against their employer.
Therefore, quite often, witnesses against the employer are people who worked in this organization, but have already left it. It is they who, as a rule, agree to confirm in court what they have heard. But here the employer can declare that the employees were in conflict with the administration (that's why they quit) and now, in retaliation, they deliberately slander the employer. So it is very difficult to predict which of the witnesses the court will believe!

- What advice can you give to those who, in the context of downsizing, are offered to quit “of their own free will”?
Just don't write this statement! This is much easier than looking for witnesses and suing later. Suggesting that a teacher resign “of his own free will” is a very convenient way out for the administration.
Firstly, the employee loses all the guarantees that are provided to him in connection with the reduction in staff.
Secondly, in this way the director can get rid of the complex and lengthy procedure for dismissal to reduce staff. As we will see below, any mistake in following this procedure is fraught with a court and reinstatement of the laid-off employee.
The teacher must understand: if there is a reduction in staff and if the employer really intends to reduce this or that rate, he will reduce it. But - in due time, according to the law, with social guarantees and with the payment of compensation. Don't rush things. Don't sign anything. Wait.

Many schools are undergoing reorganizations and downsizing. Meanwhile, educators fear that, under the guise of downsizing, administrations are trying to get rid of inconvenient teachers. How should they behave in such a case?
- First of all, let's clarify what kind of procedure it is - staff reduction (it is one of the grounds for dismissal of employees). The employer resorts to it when he comes to the conclusion that his organization will be able to function more efficiently without a specific staff unit.
Sometimes the question is asked: with what number of rates does the downsizing begin?
It can start (and end) with a single bet. Only one person can be laid off, maybe a third of the teachers. If we leave 49 out of 50 teachers, this is a reduction. Just like if we leave only 10 out of 50 teachers. Only the scale differs.
It must be admitted that in recent years, staff cuts have been taking place in many schools: the birth rate is falling, the number of children is declining. For reasons beyond the control of the employer, the number of class-sets formed is decreasing. As a result, teachers' salaries are released as well.
Reduction can also occur during internal reorganization. The employer has reformed the institution, and as a result it can provide educational services employing fewer workers.
The main criterion by which it can be determined that the reduction is legal is that the position is being reduced, not the person. The post must be gone! Simply because the employer, for one reason or another, no longer needs this staff unit. But the situation when we don’t like Ivanov, but we can’t fire him for any reason, let’s cut him down, is absolutely illegal.
If, for example, teachers cut primary school, and then another is taken in his place, this is the basis for going to court. The dismissed employee will win the case in court and will be returned to work with payment wages for forced absenteeism, with payment of compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
Employers need to keep in mind that the court will request and examine a lot of documents reflecting whether the disputed position was really reduced, including the staff list before and after the reduction, the wage fund, the number of hours worked in the time sheet ...
If the court establishes that the position has not disappeared and another person has been hired, then the employer will not be helped by the explanation that he fired the employee to reduce staff in compliance with the official procedure and payment of the required compensation. The dismissal will be considered illegal.
Another unlawful layoff should be pointed out: when an employee who occupies a low-skilled vacancy is allegedly laid off, but the employee who occupied a high-skilled vacancy is actually reduced. For what? So that the released high-skilled worker takes a lower position in the same organization. For example, a highly qualified teacher is reduced because the school is reducing the number of teachers, and some person from among the staff is dismissed due to staff reduction in order to put this teacher in his lower position. This situation is wrong. If we reduce the position of a teacher, then the teacher should be fired. If the institution this moment there is no vacancy with a lower qualification, then it is illegal to dismiss a person from some vacancy in order to put a laid-off person on it.

– How can teachers determine that the school is really going through a layoff? Sometimes the administration constantly tells teachers about future layoffs, so that someone could not stand it and quit himself ...
- If the school really started layoffs, the teacher must receive a mandatory written notice. AT Labor Code it says: it must be received at least two months in advance. The employer can notify the teacher of the reduction much earlier. But receiving a notice later than this period is the basis for going to court.
Now about the notification form. This notice is personal, signed. A telegram sent to a residence is an improper form of notification and will be considered a breach of procedure.
If the school is talking about layoffs, and no notices have been received, then educators should ask: why is the employer not following the procedure required by law? If the school has a union, it must be notified of layoffs in without fail. The employment service must also be notified.
If the school has a reduction commission, employees should be introduced to the results of its work. Otherwise, perhaps, the court will have to acquaint the results of the commission's work!
Let me emphasize: our labor law proceeds from the fact that violation of the procedure for dismissal is already a basis for reinstatement.
The employer needs at least 2 months to comply with the redundancy procedure. In more short term impossible to fit.
If the administration gave the teacher two weeks' notice of the layoff and then fired the teacher, the teacher will be reinstated in court, and the employer will have to start the layoff procedure from the very beginning, upon presentation of a written notice 2 months in advance. Even if the employee was warned of dismissal not 2 months in advance, but one month 29 days in advance (they counted incorrectly and decided that one day was nothing), the dismissal procedure was violated, and it must be started all over again.
We often get it like this: the administration catches on at the moment when the employee has already gone on vacation. On September 1, it is necessary to carry out a reduction, but there are no teachers at the school anymore! How can we be, the administration asks. If the teacher went on vacation on June 25, then no way! Because it is unrealistic to comply with the entire dismissal procedure with an absent employee. And the employee, having returned from vacation (less than 2 months before September 1) and having received a notice of reduction, has full right apply to the court if he is reduced from the first day, and the court will return him to work.
Sometimes they ask: is it possible to consider the procedure followed if the reason for the dismissal was not explained to the teacher? In the notification itself, which is given to the teacher against receipt, the employer can indicate the reason for the reduction, because with a real reduction in staff, it always exists.

Official documents

Article 81. Termination of an employment contract at the initiative of the employer
The employment contract may be terminated by the employer in the following cases:
2) reduction in the number or staff of employees of the organization, individual entrepreneur;
Article 180
When carrying out measures to reduce the number or staff of the organization's employees, the employer is obliged to offer the employee another available job ( vacant position)…
About the upcoming dismissal in connection with the liquidation of the organization, the reduction in the number or staff of the organization's employees, employees are warned by the employer personally and against signature at least two months before the dismissal.
The employer, with the written consent of the employee, has the right to terminate the employment contract with him before the expiration of the period specified in part two of this article, paying him additional compensation in the amount of the employee's average earnings, calculated in proportion to the time remaining before the expiration of the notice of dismissal.

* Article one - "PS" No. 17

The process is aimed at strengthening the administrative and financial activities of schools and will not affect the number of teaching staff or students, Izvestia was assured in the department.

According to Vyacheslav Gorlinsky, director of the Flier Children's Music School, the reorganization will lead to staff reductions in each school.

All finances will be concentrated in one center, with the general director, who will be able to manage them and more effectively use the various structures that he himself will create. They will serve all four schools on the principle of a dispatch service. One professional team will serve the schools both in the economic and in the engineering part. Of course, the staff of each school will be reduced, because now everyone has their own accounting department, their own business manager, there is a small technical service, - the director of the Children's Music School explained.

According to him, in the 1970s and 1980s, a similar system already existed: all music schools were subordinate to the main department of culture and centralized accounting. The current merger will make it possible to raise the material and economic level of the “lagging behind” schools, in particular, to introduce innovative technologies everywhere, Gorlinsky believes.

Tatyana Simonova's colleague Vyacheslav Gorlinsky reacted to the protests in a philosophical manner.

The department of culture explained to Izvestia that the reason for the change of director was the long sick leave of Tatyana Simonova.

In recent years, Tatyana Simonova has undergone several surgeries and spent most of her time on sick leave (133 days in 2014), which greatly complicates the process of running a school. At present, Tatyana Kislukhina has been appointed director of the Andreev Children's Music School, who worked at the school for 3 years as the head of the department of stringed folk instruments, for one year as deputy director, and for the last 5 years she headed the Nadezhda School of Arts, which under her leadership has become one of the best Moscow art schools, - said the department.

Kislukhina herself told Izvestia that in December and January she was already acting. school principal while Tatyana Simonova was on sick leave.

We all have such a clause in the employment contract: the founder has the right to dismiss the director at any time. We all knew about it, because we put our signature under the employment contract, - said Tatyana Kisluhina. - In the near future, we must create a charter for a new unified school, draw up a staffing table, and register a new legal entity with the tax authorities. Schools, as they worked in the mode of the educational process, will continue to be so. We have received the state task for 2015.

Unlike her colleague, pianist and presidential confidant Yekaterina Mechetina, the schools are unlikely to benefit from the reorganization.

In total, there are now 122 children's music schools and children's art schools in Moscow.

This spring, the enrollment of new students may be reduced by an average of 10%. Schools are experiencing financial difficulties, are thinking about returning the parental fee and are preparing for optimization: reduction of staff, growth paid services and the launch of an electronic attendance system. All these topics were discussed at a meeting between a representative of the Department of Culture of Moscow and Zelenograd residents.

Hall in Children's music school 71

Zelenograd art schools - musical, the Diaghilev Children's Art School (DSHI), the Fuete choreography school and the art school - have already begun to receive state assignments for the next academic year from the Department of Culture, to which they report. The approved enrollment of students in them has been curtailed: this means that the competition for admission will be tougher, many children will have to be weeded out of the preparatory departments.

“Funding is not being reduced,” said Vladimir Filippov, deputy head of the Department of Culture, who replaced his head Sergei Kapkov at a meeting at Children's Music School No. 71, who could not come. He ignored the site's questions about the reasons for the reduction in enrollment and about the reduction in the staff of schools, but promised to explain everything to the directors of the institutions.

“We cut not money, but services”

“An hour ago I received a state task, in which we have 65 children instead of 90 for September,” Sergey Gorovoy, director of the Fuete School of Choreography, said at the meeting. - I have already called the relevant organization on this issue, where I was told what the reduction is for everyone, and that they will explain to us later how everything will happen. If I have a state task for 65 children, despite the fact that I have 90 of them, should I expel the rest in September?

Classes at the school of choreography "Fuete"

“We are not reducing funding for you,” Filippov was surprised. - The other side of the issue is the responsibility of the head of the institution for effective use funds received under the state order. It is clear that we do not have the task of leaving children without a musical education and simply expel them. But there are schools where not all 100% of children always go to classes. From March 1, we will start introducing electronic systems accounting in order to understand it.

Not all children always go to classes - from March 1, we will begin to introduce electronic accounting systems

The official explained that many directors have a question: what if one of the students needs to be expelled in the middle of the year - then the state task will not be fulfilled? “We have already told the directors not to be afraid of this. We do not drive them into a Procrustean bed, so that the number of children is observed strictly according to the state order. Everything we do is not limiting your rights, ”said Filippov. How this relates to the recruitment reduction remains unclear.

“If the heads of institutions have some misunderstanding, we will gather you and tell you what and how. The situation is not mothballed, let's talk and watch, you know - especially the people of Zelenograd - that we are flexible and take into account the opinions of you as professionals, - Filippov noted, apparently referring to the story of the cancellation of the merger of music schools. “Judging by the questions, somewhere there is a feeling that everything has been reduced, children will be expelled, schools will be closed.”

Not only children, but also the states

At the Mussorgsky Music School (formerly No. 53), teachers also know that enrollment for September is planned to be reduced by 10%. The same news is openly discussed by teachers and parents at the Diaghilev Children's School of Arts. For the most popular directions - choir or choreography - the competition there has always been high.

Enrollment for September may be reduced by 10% (photo: musorgskiy.music.mos.ru)

"Now, once out of nine preparatory groups they will form one first class, only two people will be taken from each group, - the parents say. - But our school is always in great demand, many residents of Zelenograd, who studied in it themselves, only bring their children here. And this is the only school that provides musical and choreographic education in the entire “new city”.

The named average salary of 42 thousand is not very true

“Optimization” of students will hit teachers with the other end - according to parents, the process of removing a number of employees from the staff who conducted additional classes has already begun at the Children's School of Art, and teachers' workload and, accordingly, salaries may fall.

“We fear that the leadership cannot overcome this, although it is now maneuvering and trying to minimize losses. But they will still affect the learning process. We have excellent teachers, true professionals who provide quality education, many of them come from Moscow or even from other cities. What will happen to them?” the parents worry.

At the Children's Musical School named after Mussorgsky, teachers complain about low rates and give specific figures: for one individual lesson (instrument) or group (solfeggio, choir), the teacher receives 185 rubles. The salary scale for the length of service is preserved, but the payment is made up mainly of the hours worked - therefore, announced at the meeting " average salary 42 thousand rubles” is not very true for ordinary teachers. They are offered to earn money through additional lessons and convince their parents to take them - but in reality this is difficult.

“Please return the parental fee”

At the meeting, an unexpected at first glance proposal was made - to reintroduce the traditional parental fee for all students in music and other art schools. Since September 2013 in Moscow, it has been canceled by order of the Department of Culture. At the same time, there was neither a strict rationing of the hours of free classes, nor the introduction of high prices for extra or private lessons, which parents protested at the end of 2012.

Parental fees can be refunded

“All classes with us continue in full, but now it’s free,” Elena Davidenko, chairman of the parent committee of the Children’s Music School named after. Mussorgsky, the same was confirmed by other parents. However, the abolition of parental fees dealt a serious blow to the school budget. They were left without an additional source of income that they received from their traditional curricula- obviously, according to the plan from above, this was to stimulate institutions to develop paid programs, which the Department of Culture strongly urges.

You can't get money from your parents, you have to earn it - this is the message of the Moscow authorities. Looks like they weren't ready for it.

The order to abolish parental fees itself read as follows: “To develop the practice of providing citizens and legal entities for a fee for services […] in excess of the established state order, as well as additional paid services that are not the main activities in accordance with the charters of institutions.” The state will pay for the state task, and then turn around yourself, you can’t get money from your parents, you need to earn it - this is the message of the Moscow authorities. It seems that neither the "sellers" of services, nor even the "buyers" were ready for this.

“Before the abolition of the parental fee, the school had certain funds, but now many things are not covered by the state budget alone,” Davidenko says. - Yes, our school is ready to provide a lot of paid services, I myself saw a huge list of classes conducted by great specialists, for example, acting, vocals, etc. But our children, who are already studying on a budget, have very little time go somewhere else. Basically, the school manages to attract kids for whom preparatory classes paid, but you won’t earn much on them. We know that the school has financial difficulties, and, in general, we agree to pay, especially since earlier it was a small amount of about 200 rubles, well, let it be up to 500 now - this is normal.

The Department of Culture is going to return to the issue of returning the parental fee. “Let's see, maybe it's worth reconsidering the old decision so that the leaders have some additional features financing”, summed up the deputy head of the department at a meeting in Zelenograd.

Build a house for DSHI

In DSHI them. Diaghilev’s parents are ready to teach preschool children for a fee - both the choir and choreography are very popular in the city, and at the folklore department of Mikhail Tansky in the Okolitsa ensemble, they do a lot large families whole generations. But they have already announced preliminary amounts of up to 6-11 thousand rubles a month for the near future. Now the fee is several times less, plus there is a 50% discount for large families.

The famous Cantilena choir now has nowhere to perform in Zelenograd (photo: cult.mos.ru)

The school could earn more simply by increasing the number of students, but there is simply no way for DSHI to expand - everything rests on a too small building, clearly unsuitable for an institution of this level. “We have semi-basement rooms for classes, a small concert hall for 50-60 people and no prospects - the school constantly walks with outstretched hands, although it has status, recognition, and excellent teachers,” parents complain. The same was told three years ago in an interview with the website by Evgeny Rotchev, director of the Children's Art School.

“Listen, how much can you talk about this?” the prefect replied. - "Until you build it!"

The question of a new building is raised at almost every meeting with the population on the topic of culture. This time, Irena Sarnatskaya, head of the Cantilena choir, Children's Art School named after. Diaghilev, who is known throughout Russia and abroad, complained that there was nowhere for the choir to perform in Zelenograd. The hall of the Children's Art School is too small for this, and now you need to pay rent in the Palace of Culture, since, as part of its state assignment, the Cultural Center (DC) holds free reporting concerts only their teams.

It is necessary to build a new building for the school of arts - the municipal deputy Lyudmila Druzhinina once again reminded the prefect of Zelenograd about this. “Listen, how much can you talk about this?” Anatoly Smirnov replied. “Don’t build it yet!” Druzhinina replied and said that, according to the Department of Culture, the documents for the construction of a new building for the school had already been submitted to the Department of Finance and Urban Planning Policy of Moscow for inclusion in the investment program and allocation of funding. Further development The topic was not received.