An educational storm is looming between the central government and the Community of Madrid.

The Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, has warned Isabel Díaz Ayuso that her Master Law on Freedom of Educational Choice "cannot refute" Lomloe.

It is a notice that occurs the same day that the Madrid regulation begins its processing to counteract the effects of the Executive's educational reform.

After shielding the educational concerts and accelerating the schooling process to circumvent the Lomloe, Ayuso has launched the so-called Master Law of Freedom of Educational Choice, which will protect the concerts and will collect that Spanish is the vehicular language of education, a term that has disappeared from the Government's educational reform.

In other words, their goal is to maintain everything that the Ministry has changed.

In this region, a system similar to the single district, which the Lomloe has removed, will endure so that parents can school their children in the center of their choice even if they do not live near it.

In addition, the eliminated concept of "social demand" will be maintained, which allows shielding the places in the concerted if the families ask for them a lot and it will continue to be possible to call public tenders to build schools on public land, something that is prohibited in the new central law.

Public subsidies will also continue to be given to centers that separate students by gender, and families will be allowed to choose special education.

"We are not here for repetitions," Celaá said during his speech at an informative breakfast organized by Nueva Economía Forum.

The minister wanted to be gentle and asked Ayuso that "all the autonomous communities row in the same direction" because "we have an urgency and need to modify the Spanish educational system so that it is much more efficient and so that everyone can progress" .

But it has also let him see that, if he persists in his idea of ​​distancing himself from the Lomloe, he will have to accept the consequences.

As has happened on previous occasions with other ministers and other Autonomous Communities, the Ministry could send a request to the Community of Madrid to stop its attitude and, ultimately, take Madrid law to court.

The problem is that the government's inaction against other rebel autonomies, such as Catalonia, now serves as a shield for Madrid.

Catalonia has its own educational law and some of its principles are contrary to what was, until now, state regulations.

For example, the use of Spanish at school.

In addition, Ayuso clings to the fact that educational competencies are transferred to mark their own criteria, in the same way that Galicia, Andalusia, Castilla y León and Murcia do, also governed by the PP.

It is the same thing that the socialist regions did with the Wert Law.

"An organic law cannot be contested by a regional law. The regional legislative assemblies have powers, but a community law cannot violate an organic law," Celaá stressed.

The minister has assured that the freedom of choice of center "is absolutely guaranteed in the Lomloe" and that this is a law "anchored in the constitutional pact of article 27", which is the one that denounces the concerted that is not being fulfilled.

In fact, six associations of parents, students, teachers and employers have requested protection from the Petitions Committee of the European Parliament because they consider that the government's educational reform represents a "violation" of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and an "attack systemic to the rule of law in Spain ".

The representatives of the concerted complain that the dialogue with the Ministry is null but Celaá defends that "it has always found open dialogue."

"We have had no other will to reach agreements," he stressed.

It is precisely the lack of consensus on education that is most criticized by the Government.

Celaá has also defended that Spanish will continue to be the language of learning in schools despite the fact that the mention of the vehicularity of Spanish has been eliminated in its law.

"The law does not deny the vehicularity of Castilian at all," he stressed.

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