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10 Amendments of Emilie TURUNEN related to 2011/2088(INI)

Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the percentage of early school leavers in the EU currently stands at 14.4% and that 17.4% of these have only completed primary school; notes that reducing early school leaving has been a target for the EU and Member States for many years but not sufficient progress has been made with rates for early school leaving above 30% in some Member States; agrees with the Commission that Member States are not working hard enough to reduce that number and calls for a stronger commitment from Member States to act and for a closer monitoring from the Commission in order to make sure that Member States are creating and implementing strategies to reduce early school leaving;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that early school leaving leads to a significant risk of poverty and fighting early school leaving is a way to prevent young people from social exclusion; therefore considers lowering the number of early school leavers to be a key measure in reaching the target of lifting at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Member States to carry out an analysis of the problem of early school leaving, while taking due account of data protection, and to develop appropriate packages of measures for prevention, intervention and compensation; stresses the importance of exchange of best practices between Member States and support the Council Recommendation on policies to reduce early school leaving which suggests a common European framework for effective and efficient policies against early school leaving, including the idea that Member States should adopt comprehensive national strategies against early school leaving by 2012;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that pupils’ personal situations, e.g. gender, low level of education in the family or a migrant background, must be taken into account, and that these pupils must be given personalised and flexible learning arrangements and targeted encouragement from the outset; stresses that Roma children and children with no identity papers must be enabled to attend non segregated schools;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that boys more often leave school early and that we are at risk of creating a lower class of young, unemployed men with little or no education and poor chances of becoming a part of the labour market and society in general; urges Member States to give special attention to boys who have difficulties adapting to the school environment and discourage Member States from lowering the compulsory school age;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses that the highest re-integration rates are achieved by programs addressing the individual needs of early- school-leavers; calls on the institutions to respect the needs and rights of the individuals in developing programs for them;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that special individual careers advice be given to early school leavers to facilitate their entry into the world of work, and that they should be enabled by means of specially tailored measures to obtain skills and qualifications later; stresses that pupils from undocumented families must have the right to attend school;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that young persons have the right to a living income regardless of their status or level of education; therefore deplores Member States programs which cut social benefits for persons to below minimum income as a so-called ‘motivator’ to participate;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
8. ProposAdvocates, in the context of the 2012 EU budget, a p the proposed ‘Pilot pProject aimed at integratingon Youth’ with the objective of a youth guarantee to integrate young people and in particular early school leavers successfully into the labour market;
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that also early school-leavers should be given access to EU funds and mobility programs regardless of their status as ‘out-of-formal-education’; calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor if these programs are also taken up by early-school-leavers and the organisations working with them.
2011/06/09
Committee: EMPL