The request comes in the context of a historic strike in Valencian public education and after the massive teacher demonstrations held yesterday in the main Valencian cities. The local government of La Vall d'Uixó has demanded that the Generalitat "stop paralyzing the Edificant Plan" and respond to local educational needs.
“"La Vall is the capital of public education, and this is a source of pride and a hallmark of our city. We have an obligation to defend it, because public schooling is the best guarantee of equal opportunities."
Last month, the municipal plenary approved a motion supporting the demands of public education teachers. The City Council echoes demands such as reducing student-teacher ratios, defending the Valencian language, restoring teachers' purchasing power, reducing bureaucracy, and improving educational infrastructure.
The Edificant Plan, which delegates the construction and rehabilitation of educational centers to city councils in coordination with the Ministry of Education, has shown worrying paralysis. During the eight years of the Botànic Government, La Vall d'Uixó approved nine delegations of powers, which allowed for actions in CEIP Eleuterio Pérez, La Moleta, Colonia Segarra, and Recaredo Centelles, in addition to having ongoing works at CEIP Sant Vicent and the new CEIP Rosario Pérez.
“"In the three years of the current PP government in the Generalitat, only one delegation has been approved, that of Lleonard Mingarro."
This project, for Lleonard Mingarro, took more than two years to obtain a budget increase, a delay that has resulted in the works being abandoned. A similar situation, it is warned, occurs with CEIP Assumpció, where continuous changes in criteria are delaying the project and causing it not to adjust to current construction prices, with the risk that the works cannot be tendered either. Added to this is the lack of response regarding the renovation of CEIP Blasco Ibáñez, pending for more than two years, and the situation of IES Botànic Cavanilles, about which the Ministry "directly does not want to talk".
For the local government, this is the model of the Valencian Generalitat: "delay, paralyze, put obstacles in the way, confuse us with bureaucracy, and change the rules of the game halfway through." The conclusion is that when the two administrations involved have shown willingness, the Edificant Plan has worked; now the problem is that the Ministry of Education has no real interest in improving public education because it does not believe in it.
