EFE
The deputy of the Popular group Concha López criticized yesterday that the Government of the Canary Islands and the Canarian Coalition (CC) give a "blank check" to the central Executive by supporting the educational reform.
Concha López said in a statement that the Organic Law of Education (LOE) project approved in the last Council of Ministers "will mean a setback and the coup de grace to the quality of the education system."
For the head of Education of the Popular parliamentary group, the LOE "is lethal for the quality of education, does not contribute anything innovative and goes against cohesion and equality."
She believes that "a law that does not ensure a territorially or socially articulated educational system or a common training for all Spaniards, by creating seventeen different educational systems, as a result of the suppression of common teachings in Spain, a fact that is the result of the Government's concessions to the request of ERC."
The socialist government, according to Concha López, has presented a text "that has received widespread criticism from all sectors of the educational community and has been highly contested by the Council of State, which has even gone so far as to say that it would have been better if the Quality Law had been maintained."
The PP, says Concha López, is concerned that the law responds to partisan interests "and is not able to address the underlying problems of the training landscape such as school failure, the lack of authority of teachers and the lack of a culture of effort, among others."
With the new text, warned the popular deputy, "the freedom of education is seriously undermined by not clearly establishing the existence of a concert system and therefore the possibility that parents can choose the education of their children."
She reiterates that "one of the rights that people have is the freedom of education, and it is not known why the Spanish Government does not seem to understand this."
For Concha López, the public support given by the Government of Adán Martín, through the Minister of Education, to a bill that has been prepared "behind the backs of students, parents and teachers, as well as without counting on the rest of the political parties" is a "surprise".
In addition, for the popular spokesperson for Education in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, with this position the Canarian Coalition "again shows its ideological dispersion."
In this regard, she points out that "at the time, CC enthusiastically supported the Quality of Education Law prepared by the government of the Popular Party and, now, they do the same with the reform undertaken by the PSOE, which in her opinion means that the Canarian nationalists and their Government "lack any educational project for the Canary Islands."
Concha López does not understand that the nationalists "support the Ministry when it has systematically turned a deaf ear to the observations made from the autonomous governments, that they support a law that not only does not solve our problems but deepens them and, above all, is presented without an agreed economic report."
