The advisor of Education of the Government of Navarra, Carlos Giménoannounced this Monday the content of new measures to reduce report which are added to the “reduction of work overload, stabilization and educational reinforcement” that the Department proposed to the unions during a new meeting of the Sectoral table.
These proposals complete all the measures aimed at Pact to improve equity in education in Navarre that he Department has been working in recent weeks “in response to requests from the teaching community”.
The union ALS judged “insufficient” the new measures proposed this Monday by the Minister of Education of the provincial government, Carlos Giménoduring a meeting of the Sectoral table with the unions to reach an agreement.
ALS He said in a note that it was a “fake negotiation” that he also called “shameful.”
Giméno announced that the offer “exhausts the financial margin of the Department act” and that “it is an ambitious and positive offer which contains financially supported commitments”. “The Government has already shown that the recovery of teachers’ purchasing power will find its channel in the General Council of the Civil Service. In addition, we offer Navarrese teachers and families fewer students per class in all educational levels starting next year, we reduce the obligatory hours of teacher training, we guarantee to consolidate the strengthening of teachers, continue to improve stabilization and specific lines for reducing the bureaucratic burden. “, underlined the advisor.
So far, the proposals of Education established that in Navarrese public schools, classes with students aged 3 do not exceed the 23 studentsin front of the 25 current. This figure of 23 “it would be extended from year to year, consolidating in subsequent courses, so that there would only be 23 students in 2nd of Children (4 years) during the academic year 26/27 and so on progressively”.
Likewise, Education proposed to lower to 23 students the linear ratio of 1º of Primary (6 years), reducing 2 students the current maximum ratio, from course 25/26, and “progress with the new ratio towards 23 course by course.”
This Monday, the Department proposed a new measure of general reduction of the ratio “which would have a strong impact in many centers”: consolidate in Primary the student reduction already applied in Children in schools with more students with specific educational support needs (negative student index acne).
there are 3 courses, the Department decided to reduce 25 to 22 the maximum number of students in centers that had this negative index, and over the last two years the maximum ratio has been further lowered, until 20 students. This Monday, the Department proposed to extend this linear reduction of ratios in these centers when students reach Primaryso that these students remain with maximum ratios of 22 or 20 during the six years of study Primary.
REDUCTION OF RATIOS ALSO AT SECONDARY
He Department emphasized that “you can also analyze ratio reductions in Secondary“. More precisely on the 1st of THAT“in an individualized and justified manner”. This would complete “the reduction of ratios in all cycles”.
To implement the 1º reduction in THAThe Department developed a tool similar to the workforce strengthening index which served as the basis for the distribution of this course. 1,000 hours in addition to 40 infant and primary centersto determine with him, according to the criteria agreed with the unions, which centers of Secondary the reduction in ratios would be applied.
In addition, Education offered its “commitment to negotiate a general reduction in ratios by 1 THAT to integrate it into the budgets of 2026“, taking as a reference the analysis tool currently being developed by the Navarre Statistical Institute (NASTAT)in collaboration with the UPNAon the demographic evolution of Navarre.
These new measures complete the entire range of Commitment deployed by the Department throughout the last negotiation meetings of the Education Sector Tablewhich already included the reduction of compulsory training hours, “commitment to IT development to reduce the bureaucratic task of teachers”, “acceleration” of normative production on the organic regulations of the centers and the day and timetable of the provincial decree, and the “maintenance of the stabilization trajectory”, descending from 8% throughout the teaching staff.
The advisor Giménowho again attended the meeting of the Sectoral table accompanied by the general guidelines of the Departmentstressed that “all the proposed measures are conditional on the signing of the new Pact for Educational Equity“, and that the reduction of ratios “must necessarily come back to the improvement of the system (better learning and more collaborative teaching of better quality) and be evaluated each 3 years through improvement plans.
The director explained that “all ratios will be reviewed generally when the analysis tool they are developing is available. NASTAT and the UPNA“.
For the moment, in the absence of new reactions, the union ALS judged “insufficient” the new measures proposed this Monday by the Minister of Education of the provincial government, Carlos Giménoduring a meeting of the Sectoral table with the unions to reach an agreement.
ALS He said in a note that it was a “fake negotiation” that he also called “shameful.”
“Once again, Councilor Giméno came to Sectoral table without a serious proposal to be able to respond to the requests of the teaching staff. He continues to maintain the cut with the senior teaching staff 55 years old and conditionally limit the decrease in ratios only to Children And Primary. There is also no proposal to reverse the loss of purchasing power,” criticized the union.
Thus, “faced with this lack of satisfactory response from the Ministry of Education“, ALS urged Navarrese teachers to “continue mobilizing for their labor rights and citizens in general for the quality of public education.”
