The proposal, which will be presented at the sectoral meeting this Thursday, means advancing the measure one year compared to last Monday’s proposal, rejected by the unions
New offer from the Conselleria d’Educació to the teachers’ unions, after the breakdown of the talks on Monday. In what is taking shape as the main trade union demand, the department of Josep González Cambray has offered this Wednesday reverse, from the 2023-24 academic year, the teaching load of teachers up to the one they had before the 2012 cuts, that is, 23 hours a week in primary school and 18 in secondary school. Last Monday, Educació had proposed to start the reversal in 2024 and the unions demanded that the measure, at least in the case of primary school, be put into operation next September.
The proposal that Educació will send this Thursday to the unions, within the Sectorial Table of Teaching Personnel, foresees that the next school year 240 teachers will be hired to reduce the ratio of students per classroom in P3 up to a maximum of 20 students and that the substitutions of a third of a day of teachers are made by part-time hired teachers. Implementing both measures would entail a cost of more than 45 million euros.
One year earlier than advertised
According to the Educació proposal to which EL PERIÓDICO has had access, the reduction of the teaching load in one hour of infant and primary teachers (so that it remains as it was in 2012) would not be applied for two courses, 2023-2024, which represents an advance of one year compared to the forecasts that the ‘conselleria’ put on the table last Monday and that did not satisfy the teachers’ unions. In the case of secondary education, the reversal of the measure would be applied in the 2024-2025 academic year, which is what was already proposed to the unions in the last negotiating meeting.
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The offer of the ‘minister’ Cambray also foresees a progressive reduction of the ratios in the infant stage less than 20 students per classroom. In the 2022-2023 academic year, the measure will be applied only to P3, as previously announced. The following year, P3 and P4 will be the benefited courses, and in the academic year 2024-2025 it will also be extended to P5.
In this way, the cuts that were applied in the educational sector in 2012 would be practically reversed, in the midst of the economic crisis and with José Ignacio Wert as Minister of Education and Irene Rigau as ‘consellera’ of Ensenyament. The total of the measures proposed by Educació would be deployed, if accepted by the unions, for the next four years and would have an economic impact of almost 495 million of euros.