Over 14 million kroner. So much money does Aalborg private and free schools stand to lose, after Politiken School Life has looked at calculations from the Ministry of Finance, which has calculated what it will cost if the Social Democracy's desire to lower the state subsidy from 76%. to 71% becomes reality.

Nordjyske free and private schools are losing over 27 million

According to Liberal Alliance's political spokesman and leading candidate for the parliamentary election, Christina Egelund, it is a very worrying development that Nordjyske private and free schools are losing over DKK 27 million. This corresponds to the fact that each school on average loses about 450,000 kroner. According to the association Friskolerne, the proposal from the Social Democratic Party can mean that up to 100 independent schools must close.

For Christina Egelund, private and private schools are to a large extent the focal point of future development in the local communities, and a source for drawing citizens and thus life to those areas in North Jutland where the local primary school has been closed. That is why, according to Christina Egelund, it will have disastrous consequences if the Social Democracy gets power as they have thought.

Free and private schools must be strengthened

Since 2015, Christina Egelund and Liberal Alliance have negotiated an increase in the state subsidy, also called the coupling percentage for private and non-profit schools from 71 per cent. to 76 per cent For Christina Egelund, a reduction in the coupling percentage is not the right way to go, on the contrary. Instead, she believes that the coupling percentage should be raised from the current 76 per cent. to 80 per cent She finds it very difficult to see reason in making it harder for Danes with ordinary incomes to send their children in private and free school. It will have major consequences for our local community in North Jutland if you start threatening private and free schools on the economy and make it harder to send one's child in a private or free school there where the local primary school no longer exists. For lowering the grant, many free and private schools become, according to Christina