The Popular Party deputy for Lanzarote, Astrid Pérez, has requested the appearance in the Plenary of the Parliament of the Canary Islands of the Minister of Education of the Canary Islands, Soledad Monzón. In that appearance, Pérez requests that she explain "the chaos that has been generated in the reorganization of the educational map of Arrecife." These changes announced a few weeks ago by education, affect a total of 8 educational centers in the city.
The PP explains in a press release that Astrid Pérez has met with groups of teachers and parents of students who disagree with the measures adopted by the Ministry of Education and the new educational map that has been established to convert the IES of Zonzamas into an Integrated Vocational Training Center. Specifically, the teachers and students of that center oppose the "segregation" and ask that their transfer to the IES Mercedes Medina be "en bloc." In this regard, Astrid Pérez has expressed her "support and that of her party" to their demands.
A process "outside the educational community"
The also president of the PP in Lanzarote has recalled that she already denounced "the improvisation" carried out by Education, which "without counting on the educational community and five days before opening the registration period, forced to change the entire planning of schooling of eight educational centers in Arrecife." These are the Argana Alta, Los Geranios, Nieves Toledo, Titerroy and Mercedes Medina schools, and the IES Zonzamas, Arrecife and Blas Cabrera.
"The implementation of the Integrated Vocational Training Center of Lanzarote is a demand from years ago that we fully support, but we regret that the Ministry of Education is managing this process outside the educational community, creating chaos in the organization of the educational map of Arrecife," he said.
The regional deputy and president of the PP of Lanzarote asks the head of the Ministry of Education to "listen to those affected, address their demands, stop sowing confusion and redirect the situation that the educational community of Arrecife is experiencing."
