The Ministry of Education, led by Pilar Alegría, confirmed yesterday to this newspaper that the Government is preparing to update the amount of funds received by subsidized centers, after information provided by the newspaper ‘El País’. In the coming weeks, the ministry will set up the working groups. However, the main representatives of the concerted group tell ABC that the Alegría team has not contacted them, even though they know that the names that make up the working group have already been designated. «The debate is totally tainted by the biased information that appears in other media. On the one hand, the concerts, by law, should have been updated almost twenty years ago. On the other hand, it is being suggested that the subsidized centers charge illegal fees to parents. “This self-interested and fallacious discourse cannot be assumed,” complains Luis de Centeno, from Catholic Schools. “You cannot assume the self-serving discourse that these centers are charging illegal fees to parents.” The negotiation of the concert system was already marked in the twenty-ninth additional provision of the Organic Law of Education (LOE) that was approved in 2006. When Two years ago, Pedro Sánchez’s Executive carried out the Lomloe, the concert system was consolidated with some small formal tweaks. The consolidated text says the following: «A commission will be established, in which the most representative business and union organizations in the field of private private education will participate, to study the amount of the concert modules that assesses the cost. total provision of teaching in free conditions. “Its conclusions must be incorporated into the plan to increase public spending.” In addition, what was known as the Celaá law relied on surveillance, with greater intensity, of any type of collection that went outside the law by charter schools. “The real cost is not covered.” “Updating the concerts is increasingly urgent, since the current amounts do not cover the real cost of teaching,” says Santiago García, from CECE, the Spanish Confederation of Teaching Centers. «Right now, the State is paying around 50% of the real cost of education. “We have been crying out for a long time not only for fair financing, but also for compliance with a law that has been in force since 2006,” adds Centeno. According to CECE and Catholic Schools, the previous Secretary of State for Education, José Manuel Bar, held a meeting with them before the summer in which “the previous foundations were laid to create the working groups.” But with the arrival to office in August of Abelardo de la Rosa, “everything came to a standstill,” they agree. They would have only held a small meeting to get to know each other, but no date has yet been set for the constitution of the table, nor the calendar. «The information that we see published is, more than news, opinion articles, which, from the outset, distort the starting point of what the commission should be. The terms are changing,” they argue from Catholic Schools. The employers of the concerted company tell this newspaper that, although they prefer to wait for the commission, they have serious doubts that the amounts of the concert modules will increase. “That remains to be seen,” he summarizes. In any case, the update, once negotiated, will depend on the Government being able to approve the General State Budgets.
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