As if the political fire of having to manage a drought unprecedented and restrictions that will be tightened after the Christmas celebrations once the red button on the emergencythe also unusual educational setback of the PISA report has done nothing but complicate the life of a Government in minority which has one year remaining. The president Pere Aragones tries to suffocate this new flank with the help of the opposition in a summit at the Palau de la Generalitat in which it hopes that the embarrassment that was the last meeting of parties, which was called last April on account, precisely , of water scarcity.
So, the electoral climate of the municipal elections blew up an agreement which had to be patched later in Parliament. Now, the context is different: there are Catalan elections a year away, but Pedro Sanchez It depends on the Congress of ERC and Junts. So Aragonès’s objective is to achieve a photograph of the closing of the ranks in which the main parties of the opposition lend their shoulder with measures to respond to a crisis that once again involves one of the groups that has fought the most against the Government during this term: that of the teachers.
In summary, Government sources state that the quote should serve to show that, given the problem detected by PISA, there is the political consensus to face it. Furthermore, the idea is that the summit have continuityThat is, the Catalan executive and the groups meet periodically to shape the measures. “The Government assumes the responsibility that corresponds to it, but the results will always be better, more stable and more consolidated if they are done with consensus“, they maintain from the Generalitat. President Aragonès will present his diagnosis and will refer to the agreements that have already been reached in the full monograph on education that the Parliament did in summer.
The promise of “structural changes”
The Minister of Education, Anna SimóHas promised “structural changes”, has placed segregation and the fight against child poverty as a priority and has asked the parties that this not be the “umpteenth meeting without results.” The debate on the recovery of sixth hour in the public school that was cut during the mandate of Artur Mas is already on the table, but also other measures that have come to a boil in recent days and ranging from recover the split day in institutes to review the training that teachers receive, as well as the pedagogical models implemented or the limitation of mobile phones in classrooms.
Aware that these are decisions that can step on many calluses and that go beyond allocating more resources for education already reduce the ratios -issues that generate consensus- the consensus that is aspired to be achieved is marked by general caution under the motto of provide “stability” and resources to the educational community and “back to basics” in subjects such as literacy and mathematics.
Agree on measures with a lead foot
A year after the polls are scrutinized, no one wants to defend alone measures that provoke a group that, behind the scenes, admits that it can “decide” an electoral result. And neither does the Government, which in this legislature has had to face the call for successive strikes in schools, wants to be left alone again. However, for the opposition, the reaction of the Republican executive has been late and has sinned from the same attitude that they have reproached it for for more than a year: announce measures without agreeing on them before despite later coming face to face with his minority in the Parliament.
Hence, when he announced that he would call a summit, Salvador Illa extended his hand to Aragonès, but, at the same time, asked him to stop “in suspense” the dozen actions that Minister Simó had announced the day before a week after the PISA results were revealed. Measures, such as “enriching” extracurricular activities, fighting against school dropouts or recovering learning in reading and mathematical skills that, the Government stressed, do not come out of nowhere, but are based on what was approved in Parliament in the monographic plenary session of the past month of June.
The parties mark ground
Just before the meeting, the PSC has declared itself a “strong defender” of the recovery of the sixth hour, although he has not clarified whether he intends to explicitly carry it out as a proposal. What the socialists do demand is that the proposals be based on the dialogue with the teaching community and the addresses of the centers, especially those in which good results are obtained. “The bridges that former councilor González-Cambray blew up will take years to rebuild,” party sources maintain.
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Junts has also demanded that the meeting not be settled with a “mere declaration of good intentions” and that concrete measures, budgets and scheduling be agreed upon. And the Commons have demanded “more investment and less improvisation” to take action on the matter instead of promoting “makeup measurements”. The CUP, for its part, has emphasized that the budgets allocate 6% of GDP to education to reduce ratios, that the cuts of the last decade be reversed and that the division of the system into public and charter school.
These four parties are the ones that the Government has on its radar to be able to approve the 2024 accounts, the milestone with which the president intends to appease the crises that are accumulating and be able to exhaust the legislature. that the ERC votes are essential For Sánchez’s to prosper, they are the trump card that Aragonès reserves for socialists and Comuns to contribute to quelling flames that the opposition warns that they can go further when the school year ends if the drought continues in the summer.