'Unanimous' Parliamentary agreement to reform education law
Monday, November 28, 2016 @ 11:02 PM
THREE main parties in Parliament will work on a replacement law for the unpopular schools reform brought in by former education minister, José Ignacio Wert.
The PSOE and Ciudadanos, along with the PP which is governing in minority, will set up a task force who will be given six months to draw up a report which will serve as the foundations of a new Basic Education Law, to substitute the LOMCE.
Meanwhile, the timescales for introducing the effects of the LOMCE to the classroom has been put on hold indefinitely in response to the vast majority of teachers, who say they do not have the resources or time to putting the reform in place, and disagree with its content in any case.
The taskforce team's report will be a diagnosis of Spain's education system with proposals and conclusions, taking into account the EU education regulations which set certain requirements to be met by the year 2020.
National and international experts, social, cultural, scientific and educational associations and unions will be consulted, and the aim is to create an 'education pact' with the full agreement of political parties of all colours so that the school system is not changed every time a new government gets into power.
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