• Education: The 'Celaá law' accentuates its asphyxia to the concerted one: it shields increasing the places but only for public schools

In the Community of Madrid they deploy their artillery to try to

shield concerted education and special education

against the

Celaá law

.

The Government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso has initiated the procedures to promote an autonomous regulation that guarantees that places can continue to be created in both school modalities as long as there is "social demand." According to the new legislative text promoted by the Central Executive after passing through the filter of a transactional amendment according

Given between the PSOE, United We Can and More Country, the autonomies "will promote a progressive increase in public school positions in the network of publicly owned centers",

to the detriment of private schools

supported by public funds.

This educational model directly confronts the one that the PP has been defending for years in Madrid, where

parental freedom of choice is prioritized above all

"Faced with this pettiness we are going to present from this Government a law that without fissures will defend not only the concerted and freedom of education in general, but, above all, special education," Ayuso said yesterday, thus giving course to a of the promises he already made during the State of the Region Debate in September.

«Under the mantras of those of always who do not understand what it means to have a child in that situation

is forced to a false and Manichean inclusion

that is not always achieved for all children in the same way, "he added.

Draft of the preliminary project

According to the draft of the preliminary draft of the law drawn up at Puerta del Sol -to which EL MUNDO has had access-, «the Community of Madrid will guarantee in any case

the existence of sufficient places for the teachings declared free

by law, taking into account the existing supply of concerted public and private centers and the choice of the interested parties, through social demand, as well as budgetary allocations and the principle of economy and efficiency in the use of public resources " In the case of students with special needs, schooling will be governed by the principles of

«Normalization, inclusion, non-discrimination and effective equality

in access and permanence in the educational system ", being able to introduce" flexibility measures ".

Enrollment in specific centers will only be carried out when "due to the severity, characteristics or circumstances" of the child, the child requires "supports or adaptations different or of a greater degree to those that could be provided in ordinary centers and will last only as long as the decrease or maladjustment makes integration impossible ”.

Compliance with the Constitution

Although an organic law would take precedence over another autonomous law that regulates the same, in the Ministry of Education they defend that “the concept of social demand that the Government of

Pedro Sanchez

Y

Pablo Iglesias

to put an end to the educational concerts, it will remain in Madrid in compliance with the Constitution ”, implying that

State regulations could end up being appealed and annulled

The draft of the Madrid educational bill will foreseeably go public this Friday and the intention is for the Governing Council to approve it before the end of the year and send it to the Vallecas Assembly for parliamentary processing.

There PP and Cs will need the support of Vox so that the text can finally acquire the form of a regional law and everything indicates that this will be the case because Rocío Monasterio considers that «the

Celaá law

it creates inequality of opportunities "among young people and" denies the social lift. "56% of the students enrolled in the Community of Madrid occupy places in public centers, 29% in concerted schools and 15% private.

Among them there are 66,000 children with special needs, of whom only 5,600 are in special education centers (8.5%) and the rest study in ordinary schools with educational support.

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