It is expected that in this first quarter of 2023 the parliamentary process of the education pact between PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU, which has been through particularly difficult times, will take place in March last year.
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From this Thursday, February 2, the Basque Parliament resumes its activities with the celebration of the first plenary session of the year and with the long-awaited project of the Law of education on the table.
Initially, the text was to be presented before the end of 2022, although Basque government spokesman Bingen Zupiria later set this first quarter of 2023 as the deadline. a year that also brings two electoral appointments -municipal and regional elections in May and general elections at the end of the year-, which could further delay its adoption. At the moment the law is there sketch phase draft, on its way to becoming a legislative project, predictable for April.
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Historic Agreement: March 18, 2022 PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU conclude a “historic” agreement on the Education Act, a pact on the foundations that will guide the future reform of this law. It will form the basis of the future law, which will replace the previous one from 1993. (This is the full text of the agreement).
The text has very broad support, from which only PP+Cs and Vox distance themselves, and which the 91% of the Basque Chamber. 68 of the 75 parliamentarians share a common vision that will give the future standard “a horizon of stability and sustainability over time”, the PNV said at the time.
Three days later, the unions ELA, LAB, Steilas and CCOO decide call off the strike which they had announced for March 25.
The bases are approved: On April 7 of the same year, the Basque Parliament gives the green light the bases on which the future Education Law of the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) will be drafted, with the support of 90.6% of its representatives (all except PP+Cs and Vox).
The education pact stipulates, among other things, that Basque education will be structured as “a multilingual system whose axis is the Basque“and is considering various measures to reduce the weight of the public school and fighting the segregation.
Two months later, doubts begin on the part of EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU to the commitment of the Ministry of Education with said agreement.
He June 15 the education advisor Jokin Bildarratz He assures that the law could be ready for the 2023-2024 academic year, arguing: “We are doing well, there is a good agreement. It has very deep roots.”
The Basque government is finalizing the draft: the draft of the new law will arrive on September 19 and this opens a period of one month for citizens to use their contributionsand once this process is complete, the text will be sent to the Basque Parliament.
The keys to the design of the education law
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The eraser keys
Scope of application: It will be extendable to any educational center funded by public funds, therefore it is also mandatory for the centers consulted to comply with the stated principles and objectives.
free of the system: The entire education system will be free in the Basque Country, even in subsidized centres, which they will not be able to charge any compensation, even surreptitiously, for providing compulsory education. The Haurreskolak or daycare centers will also be released.
End of segregation by gender or socio-economic reasons: In the educational centers of the Basque Public Education Service, the segregation sexualand educational centers guarantee sexual and gender freedom under the conditions set out in the applicable regulations.
Choice of Center and Admission Process: Every person is entitled to it choice center, within the framework of the educational offer. The public school is placed at the center of the system and the subsidized school as complementary.
Basque and other languages: Basque education is structured as a multilingual system of which as is Basque, and is articulated in two official languages and at least one foreign language. The aim is to reach level B1 in the two official languages at the end of primary education and B2 at the end of ESO.
secularism: Basque educational centers will guide their education in terms of secularism and with respect for different beliefs religious
The socio-political context surrounding the process
The education pact between PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE and Elkarrekin Podemos-IU has been established especially difficult moments. The Gasteiz government’s offer to PP+Cs to organize two-year classes in private schools caused “mistrust” and “concern” among the opposition parties that have joined the pact.
Elkarrekin Podemos-IU then accused the Basque government of “break the education pact”. After confirming that “the offer to the PP+Cs was the straw that broke the camel’s back”, he questioned the purple formation’s support for the future education bill.
In this context, EH Bildu warned that the Basque government’s offer to PP+Cs aroused “distrust” in them, but called for calm and requested an urgent follow-up meeting of the Education Pact.
On the other hand, there are officers who believe that the law will serve to give priority to the school prepared for the public. Something the Basque government has denied more than once.
In addition, Kontseilua and seven agents from the education community are committed to a “generalized and inclusive” linguistic model.
On November 5, 2022 Thousands of people demanded in Bilbao, in a demonstration organized by the Harro Topagunea Basque public school“a change of course” in the future education law to a system that focuses on public education. November 30 They declared the first strike day. According to the organizers, the strike, to which some 30,000 non-university Basque public education workers had been called, was seconded by 60% Teaching staff, teachers, employees of the Haurreskolak Consortium, teachers and kitchen and cleaning staff of the Education Department. For its part, the Basque government has reduced supervision to 38.6%.
The second day of the strike came a few days later on December 13. The organizers of the strike asked the Basque government and the parties that the text “conforms to the demands of the workers for a public education systemown and Basque”. On the same day, Zupiria announced that the new law would enter into force in the first quarter of 2023.
And now that?
The text will therefore first have to be approved in the Governing Council and then processed in the Basque Parliament, where the pact’s signatories will assess compliance with what was agreed in March 2022, in order to give way to full approval.
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