Seven autonomies have not approved the Celaá Law curricula five days before the start of classes

• OLGA R. SANMARTIN

  @olgarsanmartin

  Madrid

Updated Wednesday, August 31, 2022-02:50

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Seven Autonomous Communities have not yet approved the decrees detailing what

students have to learn this year .

Five days before the start of classes,

,

,

,

,

, the

and

have not arrived in time to process the new Infant, Primary, ESO and Baccalaureate curricula, which imply changes in the contents and in the form of imparting them with respect to those of the previous law, the Wert Law.

These regions, which represent

of the students enrolled in Spain (around four and a half million schoolchildren), have distributed drafts to the schools so that they can prepare the schedules in advance.

But even so, the delay in the publication in the official gazettes has been a source of tension for textbook publishers.

In general, all the Autonomous Communities have been very fair.

has been the most applied, completing the process in June, but the

, the

,

,

or

have finished it in August, with the teachers on vacation.

Castilla y León, Galicia, Murcia and Andalucía (PP) blame the Government, which on

finished approving the last of its royal decrees on minimum education, the Baccalaureate (the rest were published between February and March), although the Lomloe has been up and running since December 2020.

«We already warned that there was no time to meet the deadlines due to the delay of the Ministry.

It has taken 15 months to publish their curricula," say Education sources from Castilla y León, who accuse the Executive of creating "uncertainty."

Galicia, which also requested a moratorium, assures that "the regional process cannot begin until the state process is completed and, as it is a decree, it takes between six and seven months to complete all the mandatory procedures", which include a legal analysis and a consult the regional school council.

«The Galician drafts were presented on

, only 15 days after the approval of the last one by the Government.

The delay of the Ministry conditioned the approval of ours.

We cannot perform miracles.

The definitive ones will be in the first weeks of the course.

We have everything organized despite the chaos generated by the Ministry, ”indicate sources from the Ministry.

In Murcia they speak in the same sense and trust to have them for October.

Why has the government taken so long?

To begin with, the processing of a royal decree implies some 20 weeks of negotiation, between the public presentation and the passage through the

and the

.

The Ministry began in 2020, but in the summer of last year Pedro Sánchez replaced Isabel Celaá with Pilar Alegría and hundreds of pages had to be corrected.

The new minister, who arrived with the mission of reducing the school confrontation, asked that the wording be softened and reduced the number of times that expressions that could generate controversy or that were not understood due to her convoluted jargon appeared.

The implementation could not be delayed -in countries like

it takes more than four years to renew the curriculum while here it has been done in half the time- because the calendar was included in the law.

Along the way, the Secretary of State has also changed.

The new one,

, has asked the centers for "tranquility": "Everything is not expected to change from September.

Educational reform is carried out by teachers in the classroom and that has to come little by little.

Pushing for urgent change would make people very nervous," he said earlier in the summer.

Difficulties with textbooks

The Autonomous Communities have provided the centers with the structure of the curricula and have held informative sessions so that they can learn about them.

“In Catalonia they are not approved as a procedure, but the centers already have guidelines and a very extensive document with all the information since before the summer,” they point out in the Department of Education of Catalonia.

"They will be approved with the course started, although the centers have had the curricula for several months and have been working with them for a long time," they say in the Basque Country.

The Canary Islands have created teaching staff commissions based on "six common and transversal strategic lines" on "sustainable development, gender perspective and coeducation, inclusive education, competent emotionality, cultural sense of education and education in the natural, social and cultural heritage of the Canary Islands » that have led to a process of «citizen participation».

Galicia and Castilla y León also made the information public “months ago”.

The problem has occurred when specifying.

The

has had "difficulties" in translating what is established in the decrees into the manuals because they lacked regional content (covering between 40% and 50% of the topics).

The editors warned at the beginning of the year that they were working "with uncertainty and lack of information."

However, they promise that the books will be for the new course.

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