The former Minister of Education of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuela de Armas (PSOE), has accused this Monday the new Executive led by CC and the PP of endangering the progress made by the islands in education from zero to three years to bet on "the private business".
The former Minister has described as "very serious" the situation that has been generated with the delay in the start of classes, "not because we did not leave the homework done", she pointed out
The previous head of Education has stated that all the previous work to open new classrooms from zero to three years was done in the same way as the previous year and has defended that, while the socialist government was committed to public education, "they are obviously committed to the business of private education".
Manuela de Armas has assured that before ceasing in her functions, the previous Government left "tendered and awarded" all the necessary works in the schools so that they would begin in summer.
"The normal thing is that in September or October, let's say November if you want, all those works would be finished", added the former Minister, who pointed out that her department also left the furniture and all the necessary supplies awarded, as well as the appointments of the personnel that should be in charge of those classrooms.
Armas has said that she is not surprised that the new heads of Education "have acted like this", in what the PSOE describes as a commitment to the private sector to the detriment of public education, but that "they have done it so quickly".
"They have to speak badly of the public to justify that they can do it with the private, and now they have said that they are going to spend four million, which they are going to take from the own funds of all the Canarians to give them to the employers of private education when it is neither necessary, nor solves any problem" she assured.
The former regional head of Education understands that the Government "what it has to do is get to work" and, as an example of the "bad management" of the new team, she cited the case of the two classrooms in Playa Blanca, in Lanzarote, where the works are finished, the staff appointed and the classes do not start, "which is a disruption for 37 families on the island".
The former Minister of Education has appeared in Arrecife together with the general secretary of the PSOE in Lanzarote and national deputy for the province of Las Palmas, María Dolores Corujo, as well as the socialist spokesman for Education in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Marcos Hernández.
Corujo has asserted that, throughout these "few months" of the Executive "of the right" presided over by Fernando Clavijo, the Canarians have "verified how a Government has once again jeopardized the essential public services" of the autonomous community.
In this sense, she has referred to two measures that, in her opinion, denote the course of the current Executive: "the first, the decision to subsidize the inheritance tax to those who have the most, and secondly, the attempt to privatize public education from zero to three years".
She recalled that it was the Government presided over by Angel Víctor Torres that "generated a historical milestone" such as implementing free education from zero to three years, "a public service much demanded in the Canary Islands that had not been launched and that benefits thousands of families throughout the archipelago".