The 5% Platform for Education has denounced this Thursday that the draft budgets of the Autonomous Community for 2025 "sink" Canarian education to 4.05% of GDP, when it should reach 5%.
The platform has lamented that it will go from 4.20% to 4.05% and "even further" from the 4.63% that was reached in 2023 and has pointed out that in a scenario of GDP growth of 4.26% and growth of the total budget of 3.11%, the education budget grows by just 2.93%, losing weight both in relation to GDP and in relation to the budget.
It has recalled that the Canary Islands Education Law establishes that from 2022 onwards, the Canary Islands must dedicate at least 5% of GDP to Education in order to undertake the programs and actions necessary to overcome the educational gap in the Canary Islands and accelerate the improvement of its educational indicators.
Three years after the deadline established in the law, the education budget grows by less than 70 million euros and registers an investment deficit of more than 572 million euros, the platform has warned.
According to what has been warned, with these budgets, it will not be possible to address the challenges that education has in the Canary Islands, such as the reduction of ratios, the increase of staff, the extension of early childhood education, the improvement of infrastructures and the development of Professional Training.
"If we want our boys, our girls and our youth to have the future they deserve, it is necessary for political leaders to move from grandiloquent declarations and good intentions to the assumption of concrete commitments and the allocation of the necessary resources for this," he added.
For all these reasons, the Platform for 5% for Education has called on the Government of the Canary Islands to value the training of citizens and allocate the necessary resources to guarantee a quality education, in line with international standards and the expectations of the educational community.
5% Platform for Education denounces that the fall in investment "sinks" Canarian education
Education budgets have been falling as a percentage of GDP for two years in a row, which contradicts the Canary Islands Education Law
October 31 2024 (10:57 WET)
