Educació has sent this morning instructions to all educational centers
The Department of Education sent an email to the more than 5,000 educational centers of Catalonia with the instructions that they must follow to certify that their language projects fulfill the normative valid.
In this email, the Department explains that to certify that the projects comply with the regulations, the addresses must access a application and answer a seven question quiz. If all the answers are affirmative, this will mean that your linguistic project is valid. If any of the answers is negative, these centers will have a course –on 2022-23– to adapt their project to current regulations. Schools have a margin of 30 daysthat is to say the whole month of June, to answer this questionnaire.
The directors must answer, for example, if the linguistic project of the center foresees Catalan as the host language for newcomers or if Catalan and Spanish are languages of curricular use.
According to the decree that the Government approved this Monday, the Department of Education is in charge of validating the linguistic projects of the centers and the ‘conseller’, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, is ultimately responsible for them before the law. In this way, the Government relieves teachers of any responsibility in the face of justice in this matter.
The instruction also emphasizes that the teaching staff will be in charge of ensuring that the center’s linguistic project is carried out. And the Inspection will monitor so that it is so.
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The Department considers that the TSJC will consider the decree and these instructions sufficient. Entities like Cultural Omnium, which has asked the Government for alternatives in case these measures (the new Catalan law, the decree and the instructions) are not enough. “We must have a plan B, a plan C and a plan D to ensure that the claws of the courts are out of the schools,” said the president of the entity, Xavier Antich.
For its part, the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB) It has already announced that on June 1, if the instructions sent to the centers do not comply with what is required by the sentence, it will present a letter to the TSJC denouncing the disobedience and requesting measures for immediate execution of the sentence. “The term of May 31 is still in force and in the event that Catalan students are not receiving at least 25% of their teaching in Spanish on that day, there will be a breach of the rule of law that must be repaired immediately,” he points out. the entity that presides Ana Losada.