An extraordinary item of almost 67 million euros is made possible, which will pay the corresponding amounts for the years 2023 and 2024. PNV, PSE-EE, PP and Vox voted in favor of the law, EH Bildu abstained and Sumar abstained. has positioned itself against it.
Last Thursday, the Basque Parliament authorized the amendment of an article in this year’s budget law, which allows the creation of a budget law extraordinary game of almost 67 million euros for equate gradually the salaries of the teaching staff of private centers coordinated with those of employees in the public education network.
The payments to the staff of the coordinated network relate to the years 2023 and 2024 and will be paid retroactively. A total of 50.1 million will be made available for the Kristau Eskola network and 16.8 million for the ikastolas and the rest of the centers. The Ministry of Finance will now provide the funds to cover these payments, from the remainder of the Ministry of Finance.
PNV, PSE-EE, PP and Vox voted in favor of the law, while EH Bildu has been abstained and the only parliamentarian of Add, Jon Hernández has positioned himself in return for.
EH Bildu MP Ikoitz Arrese has justified his group’s abstention because, as he has pointed out, although it seems generally a good measure, not all subsidized centers are the same nor do they have the same commitment to the Basque language, transparency, secularism or inclusion.
For his part, Jon Hernández voted against because, as he has assured, he will allow salaries in the coordinated network that will be higher than those of the public network. Moreover, he has opted for the public school model and has accused the Basque government of maintaining the private network with public money.
This initiative responds to compliance with the Organic Education Act of 2006 and the Basque Education Act of 2023 and has consensus of the school representatives According to the Minister of Education, Begoña Pedrosa, there are joint parties of Euskadi, those of Social Initiative and the ikastolas, as well as the majority unions.
The counselor, who did not intervene in the plenary meeting to explain the content of this change in the law, clarified a few days ago that with this salary equalization, teachers in the subsidized education network will not be able to receive higher salaries than those who work in the education sector. the public sector “in the same circumstances.”
Source: EITB
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