Education cuts 75 public places in Almeria schools in the schooling process, according to Ustea

The Education Delegation of the Junta de Andalucía in Almería has cut 75 public places in the Almeria schools in the schooling process, as has been denounced by the Ustea education union.

“The offer of places in the Ministry of Education for the next academic year will mean the elimination of a significant number of classes from the network of public centers. The data that are known warn that the cut affects towns of the eight provinces and all the capitals, “they have warned from the union.

You have detailed that “in Almería capital we have evidence of the suppression of at least one line of Early Childhood Education in the Alboran Sea and in the Lope de Vega and Madre de la Luz CEIPs. Due to COVID some parents have decided not to enroll to his students from 3 to 6 years in the non-compulsory stage of the Second Cycle of Early Childhood Education, but if everything returns to normal, it is foreseeable that they will return. Impossible option if the Almería Education Delegation closes these educational lines “.

The union has stated that the enrollment period It has started with an offer of 1,441,000 places for all of Andalusia, 4,000 places less than last year when the figure was 1,445,148. “This translates into a significant cut in classes in public schools.”

“Educational centers have received a forecast of classes for the next year that does not correspond at all to their real needs “.” The offer of public places of the Ministry of Education has been made “downward” and on a forecast of 25 male and female students per classroom. That is to say, well below the real demand, according to the municipal registration data managed by the management teams of the schools, and keeping the classes in the maximum ratio allowed by the regulations “, they have argued.

These data are what USTEA “has been able to collect with your own means through complaints from management teams and AMPAs. Given the lack of official data and the opacity of the Ministry “.

Faced with the complaints from USTEA and other union, professional and family organizations, “the Ministry has argued that the offer of places is related to the decrease in the birth rate.” “However, the 568 classes eliminated this course correspond in all cases to public schools. The administration has put into practice a registration process expressly designed to impose a transfer of students from public education to concerted private centers“They have concluded from the union.

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