Madrid has placed families at the center of their agenda. In the Ecuador of the Legislature, he has announced more measures to reinforce conciliation. Community and City Council work this summer so that the next course courtyards and libraries of public centers remain open in the afternoon and on vacation.
The measure seeks to relieve the burden of parents, especially during the months without class, where conciliation becomes more complicated. “Open patios”, As the initiative is called, it does not arrive alone. This summer, more than 200 public schools in the capital will be in improvement works, with actions that include the installation of air conditioning, renewal of courtyards and improvement of energy efficiency.
The president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, explained this week that “The schools should not close when the bell of two in the afternoon sounds”. The objective is to expand the social utility of schools and support families who work, outside school hours with reinforcement, leisure and sport programs for their children.
The consistory measure is part of the city plan adapted to the life of families. The improvements will affect the interiors and the exterior facilities where accessibility, green spaces and shadow will be reinforced thanks to the works that will be carried out until September.
The school, therefore, will not be alien to the works. School reforms are part of a summer marked by large urban interventions in the city such as the underground of the A-5 and the execution of the call «Green Paseo del Southwest». The project It will recover spaces for neighbors and reduce pollution by 98 percent.
A more habitable city and a school network at the service of families is the double message of this week in which the regional government has defended its proactivity in pioneering measures in education. Proof of this, they say in Sol, is the Limitation of the use of electronic tablets in the classrooms, a decision that generated controversy but has seconded other communities.
Throughout this legislature, the region has also promoted the creation of entrepreneurship classrooms, the Baccalaureate Excellence Program, the reinforcement of the Dual FP and the universalization of the first cycle of children for children from 0 to 3 years in public and concerted centers. In September, another pioneer measure will premiere so that patios and libraries of public schools can open in the afternoon. It thus incorporates into the opening of the centers on non -school days and the extracurricular activities that entered into force last year.
From the opposition they ask for “more planning and consensus” around conciliation measures. The Socialists claim that families are also heard and have shown their skepticism about the “open courtyards” and school activities if it is not accompanied by a substantial improvement of educational personnel. More Madrid, meanwhile, has insisted that “conciliation is not resolved with eternal days for children, but with coherent and well -financed labor and educational policies.” The Regional Executive defends that it is a “realistic and voluntary advance”, which does not impose families or centers, but offers conciliation opportunities where there was not a public alternative before. “Madrid does not impose, Madrid expands,” Zanjan leave.
In addition to the family and educational agenda, two issues have shaken the week: autonomic financing on the account of Pedro Sánchez’s plans to satisfy their partners, and immigration.
Ayuso has confirmed that he will not participate in the Round of Contacts on Financing with the Autonomous Communities convened by the President of the Government. Also, which will resort to the National Court and the Constitutional Court the bilateral agreement between the Executive and Catalonia, which provides “singular” financing for this community. “It is an institutional blackmail that breaks equality between Spaniards,” he said, after ensuring that Madrid “will not legitimize a letter made to keep Sánchez in Moncloa.” The same qualifier used his counselor Ana Dávila to describe the process of relocating immigrant minors.
The Community of Madrid, together with others governed by the PP, has refused to participate in the Sectorial Conference of Children and Adolescents convened by Moncloa to address the distribution of unaccompanied migrant minors.
The Madrid family, Youth and Social Affairs head has accused Pedro Sánchez Executive to exercise “Political blackmail” and to act in a “unconstitutional and inhuman” way in this process in which it “negotiates with the lives of minors in exchange for votes”. It refers, according to this newspaper, to the exclusion of Catalonia and the Basque Country of the cast. In his opinion, this responds to government concessions “so that Pedro Sánchez will end up one more day in power yielding to the nth independentist toll.”
The peak around immigration has occurred in Alcalá de Henares. The presence of the reception, emergency and derivation center (CAED) has lit this week the political wick. The response of the Government delegate, Francisco Martín, to the claims of the city mayor, Judith Piquet (PP), has risen the decibels in the institutional clash.
The councilor met with Martín to demand that he close the center and the response of the representative of Sánchez in the region was blunt. Not only is it not in his plans to close it, but he intends to expand it, Piquet revealed to this newspaper.
Concerned about the situation in the municipality from the arrivals of migrants without integration plan, he has denounced that “we have a problem of coexistence”, especially in the neighborhoods closest to the CAED. “I want to avoid a Pacheco tower, but nobody guarantees us that this cannot occur,” said.
Other municipalities such as Pozuelo de Alarcón have also raised their voice against the arrival of 400 unaccompanied minors. The municipal plenary approved an emergency motion presented by Grupo Popular opposing the intention of the Government to transfer these minors to the municipality. “We cannot allow it to be transferred to a single minor to a center that does not meet the necessary measures, where there is no space and where the protection conditions are not met,” said the mayor, Paloma Tejero.