The Ministry of Education intends to open “shortly” with the unions of the non-university public education different dialogue tables differentiated to negotiate teaching hours for teachersthe salary levels and classroom ratios, among other matters.
Sources from the Ministry of Education have indicated to EFE that it is about resuming the sectoral Table on teaching to analyze the requirements of the teaching staff with differentiated debatesfrom school hours to professional careers, salary scales and classroom ratios.
In addition to unions, Education is also going to negotiate with the employers of the charter schools to update the funds that these private centers receive each year from the State, reports the newspaper The Country. This implies that the money these centers receive from the State will increase.
In return, it points out the information of The CountryEducation expects “a commitment to transparency in the admission processes and real gratuity of the charter school.” That is to say, the Government hopes that the mandatory fees charged by a good part of the charter schools will be eliminated. despite receiving funds from public administrations and thus complying with the objective of guaranteeing real free of concerted education. The ministry intends to comply with the provision contained in the educational law, the Lomloe, approved in 2020.
In this sense, a recent study published last April highlighted that Subsidized schools charge more than one billion euros in “illegal” fees to families.
The study showed that 90% of the largest subsidized educational centers charge a fee to families, while in medium and small centers the proportion drops to between 60% and 70% of the schools. Small centers charge fees because they are poorly financed and 30%, the largest ones with the largest number of students, do so despite receiving sufficient public funds. The percentage of centers that charge a fee ranges between 66% and 75%, depending on the educational stage.
The Association of Private and Independent Schools – Circle of Educational Quality (Cicae) denounced at the beginning of this month of October that three out of every four charter schools charge fees to familiesaccording to the ninth edition of the Study of Fees and Prices in Concerted Schools: 79.4% of the schools visited charge a base fee to families and in 72% of the cases there is no voluntariness.
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