After the controversy of the registration process, the Basque Education Law returns to its goal
- IU parliamentarian Iñigo Martínez Zaton criticized the planning decree and the order of approval of the Basque Government, denounced that there are families that want to register in the public school and that have destined for the concerted, and added that the statements of the Federation of Ikastolas are “dangerous”. He warns that government decisions go against the Education Agreement and that things “if they don’t change much” will not support the Education Act.
The UEU Elkarrekin Podemos is far from supporting the CAPV Education Act, as Martínez Zaton told a news agency and we have asked him why. The planning decree establishes “and therefore are fundamental” the school map and the spheres of influence for the choice of the center, recalls Martínez, “but the planning decree published by the government does not guarantee public places for all, for example, in eight localities there are no public schools, although in the Education agreement we agree that public places will be guaranteed in all places”. He says that "the government is against what was agreed in the educational agreement", and proof of this is the approval order that follows the line of the planning decree (the planning decree has been made for five years, the approval order leaves each year). The tensions generated by the registration process are the result of this admission order: some families have denounced that they have been left without a public place and others have not obtained a place in the chosen concerted centre. The Ikastolas Confederation has announced that students who have applied for enrolment at ikastolas will not be sent to other centres.
“The criticism of the order of admission is that the distribution between the centers is made taking into account all the students, not only those who consider themselves vulnerable, but the mandate has the difference that diversity is an attempt to distribute among all the schools, and the declarations of the ikastolas, as sustained in public money, are dangerous, because now they do not comply with the measures contrary to segregation and the right to education must be prioritized above all.
With regard to the bustle that has generated the registration process, the Government responds that 94 per cent of the requests respect the choice of the family and review the cases in which claims are made.
The Basque Government responds that 94 per cent of the requests respect the option of the family and will review cases in which a complaint has been filed. In view of the direction the government can take, Martinez says that the public network must be prioritized: “The agreement was signed to strengthen the public school, and if the birth rate will mean less enrollment, more people will have to go to the public and less to the concerted”.
On the other hand, "the government's decisions are not favorable to the public school", according to Martínez, and stresses that the Administration has signed the pact with the centers agreed for six years, "guaranteeing the number of classrooms it currently has for another six years. Once the Government’s pact with the concerted ones is over, leaving these centres without concert is not an external goal, but there is a difference between renewing the concert and ensuring the number of classrooms to six years when the number of registrations is falling.” Martín believes that this is to the detriment of the public school, so he opposes the educational agreement. “Right now we are against the Education Act, and things will have to change a lot so that we have our vote.”
Nevertheless, once the draft law was presented, the draft law drafted by the Government needed it by December in the Basque Parliament, but it has not yet been presented in Parliament and the Parliament has criticised the process. “At the political level, we do not understand what is going on to delay the text so much, we do not know where the problem is, because we have not been given any information on the issue by the government, although it has been negotiating drafts with other parties.”
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