So is the ‘law Celaá’: the Government gives to Catalonia, the decision of what courses are given in Spanish

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The new education act the Government has done into the bargain close to work to reach a State pact for Education in the Senate. In march the PSOE broke the negotiations in the Congress, but eight and a half months after the presentation of the study the upper House has followed latent. The senators socialists decided to keep it and not raised never get up from the table in attention to autonomy and convinced of the role of the Senate as a body of territorial cohesion. Now all the groups have decided to close for before the end of the year.

The political reality is very different to the one that was in march. Has changed the Government and the minister spokesman, Isabel Celaá, has ready a draft of draft law that raises the repeal of the Lomce. The members of the General Commission of Autonomous Communities admit that “it was ludicrous” to try to reach an agreement when there is already a new law. There is a certain disenchantment among them, the feeling that “we have lost the time”, but were aware that they had not been able to reach a full agreement.

The differences are “impossible to solve”, they recognize, in such matters as concerted or Spanish. But they believe that they could have come to consensus on issues such as the teaching career, the curriculum, early Childhood Education, vocational education, ICT or languages. Now the rope has been tensioned and formed two blocks irreconcilable: the public versus the private, the secular versus the religious, the excellence versus equity, the State to the autonomous communities. The distance between the one and the other has gotten bigger after a year and a half, 16 meetings and 22 appearances of all the directors autonomic (Catalonia), as well as the president of the FEMP and three educational experts.

last Tuesday, after Celaá referred to the educational community a copy of his law, the senators decided to meet to see if they continued or not with the presentation. PP, Cs, and CC decided to follow, while the PSOE, we Can, ERC and PNV defended that “it was absurd” to continue. In the end, they agreed that the legal to create a synthesis of all the interventions and each group will send their contributions before December 11. All of this would be raised with the Full and be forwarded to the Ministry. There will be No debate or negotiation and is expected to close the paper when the Government receives the text.

“In reality, it was all very stagnant,” says Josetxo Arrieta, a senator of Can. Gives the reason Francisco Menacho, of the PSOE, who says that “at the time that there is a new law no longer makes sense to try to reach an agreement, because the presentation was created precisely so that the covenant would give rise to a new standard of education”. “From the first day we said that this was not any part”, says Mirella Cortès, ERC, next to Mª Eugenia Iparragirre, the PNV, who do not understand why “the PP compromises in to continue”.

Both the popularAna Gonzalez as Luis Crucible, Cs, and Paul Rodriguez Eyebrows, DC, stack pests against the law Celaá and see a “contradiction” have filed a law without to have arrived before the agreement when “logical” would have been the opposite: to write a rule in function of what is decided in the Parliament. They argue that there are that try to exhaust all avenues of negotiation and does not renounce the search for a covenant of the State.

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