SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 12 (EUROPE PRESS) –
CC de Tenerife has demanded that the Government of the Canary Islands implement a multi-year plan to reduce student-teacher ratios on the islands and to carry out an increase in percentage investment and investment per student.
In a statement, the nationalist formation has explained that the general secretary of the CC-PNC and senator, Fernando Clavijo; the island secretary general CC of Tenerife, Francisco Linares; and the secretary of the Organization of CC de Tenerife and regional deputy, Rosa Dávila; They held a working meeting this week with the ANPE Canarias union.
In this regard, Linares asserted that “the Canary Islands continue to fail to comply with the Canarian Education Law, which establishes that an investment of at least 5% of GDP in education should be achieved by 2022. This situation must be corrected and that one way to do so is investing European funds”.
“It is necessary to introduce other variables, such as the average investment per student to guarantee that when the GDP collapses there is not an artificial rise in educational investment based on GDP,” he indicated.
Similarly, he urged the regional Executive to design a strategy for digitizing public education. “The arrival of European funds for digitization should serve to provide all students with an electronic device that avoids the digital divide and to provide teachers with an ICT complement that allows them to periodically update their resources,” he insisted.
For her part, the Secretary of Organization of CC de Tenerife, Rosa Dávila, delved into the need to pay summer monthly payments to interim teachers who have more than 5 and a half months of service that course.
“In the budget laws of recent years,” he said, “the existing agreement to make this payment has been suspended. It is a right that has been suppressed in the Islands, but is maintained in the rest of the State.”
For this reason, he requested an endowment of a specific item to hire health personnel (school nurses) in educational centers. “It is essential that health personnel be incorporated into educational centers. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, this personnel is even more necessary to carry out the work of prevention, detection and control of outbreaks of Covid-19,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, Fernando Clavijo stressed that these meetings are part of the project launched by CC called “Canarias Te Neces”, an open dialogue with society in which the nationalists want to project a road map towards the Canary Islands of the future.
Finally, in the meeting between CC de Tenerife and ANPE, other matters were also discussed, such as the negotiation of the conditions of VT teachers after the approval of the LOMLOE, the Educational Infrastructure Plan and the schedule of 23 teaching hours for the Corps of Teachers.
