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The return to school in Italy is regulated by regional calendars which establish differentiated start dates for the new school year.
Students in Veneto, Valle d'Aosta and Trento return to class tomorrow, as foreseen by their respective regional calendars: around 530 thousand in Veneto, over 15 thousand in Valle d'Aosta, around 66 thousand and three hundred in Trento.
However, school has already resumed in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and for the youngest, in nursery school, in Lombardy. Next week everyone else will resume: on Monday 14 September Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Marche, Molise, Piedmont and Umbria and Lombardy will return to class, which will see the return of all school levels after childhood.
Tuesday 15 September will be the turn of a large group made up of Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Sicily and Tuscany. The following day, Wednesday 16 September, lessons will resume in Abruzzo, Basilicata and Sardinia. Finally, Puglia will formally close this long start-up chain, where the first ring of the bell is scheduled for Thursday 17 September.

The 2026/2027 school year begins in Italy between 7 and 17 September with a staggered calendar by region. Among the new features: ban on smartphones in all schools, new National Indications that replace those of 2012, mandatory introduction of AI in programmes, reform of technical and professional education with the '4+2' model, strengthening of musical and linguistic education, launch of the 'AscoltaMI' psychological service and new safety and insurance measures for students and staff.

The new school year begins tomorrow in Italy for around 8 million students. Lessons have already started in some autonomous provinces and regions, while the others will return to class between tomorrow and 17 September.

The Anief union denounces that teachers' salaries are being eroded by high rents in Northern Italian cities, asking for allowances for off-site workers, tax discounts on rent and transport, and resources in the budget law to guarantee teaching continuity and counteract the waivers of stabilisation.

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